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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 The prevailing concept defines what research is acceptable and what isn’t, which laboratories will enjoy the patronage of the pope in Galileo’s time or the government today, who is published and who isn’t. Parapsychology, for the most part, is an ‘isn’t’... Publication of parapsychology papers in the major scientific journals is rare (33:21). Of course not all scientists are skeptics constrained by ‘prevailing concepts". Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, an astronaut on the Apollo 14 space flight to the moon, holds a Doctor of Science Degree in Aeronautics /Astronautics frofa” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducted ~ ESP tests on that space mission in February 1971. In the early 1980s, during an ‘nterview with Martin Ebon, author of Psychic Warfare: Threat or [llusion?, Captain Mitchell commented: During the intervening years, my work, as well as the work of parapsychology in general, has convinced me that the human organism is capable of all of the events we study in parapsychology. . .{I have] established this to my own satisfaction--if not fully to the satisfaction of all skeptics (18: 166). Within the exploding technological revolution "The eminent computer scientist A. M. Turing considers the question that the only discernible difference between a human being and a computer may be that the latter cannot experience psi" (41:261). Similarly, pioneer computer researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee stated: My contention is that machines will be able to “think” by any human standard that can be precisely defined. But as the machines get “smarter” by these rational standards, it is the definition of humanness that will change... I think we will discover, beyond these rational Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 10