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Chapter 3 Science’s Cutting Edge After his success with viewing Mount Fuji, Morehouse was brimming with excitement. Still, he harbored some doubts he couldn’t entirely shake. Had it been simply beginners luck? A fluke? Whatever it had been, his curiosity about remote viewing was soaring, and he was more than ready to return to the lengthy studies of psychic history. He learned there had never been a slowdown in parapsychological research, there was simply a tremendous lag in the public’s perception. This was due to the ongoing controversy between psychical evidence and steadfast debunkers in the scientific and medical communities. Because of the controversy, writers in the news media tended to report from one extreme or the other—either uncritically recounting stories of amazing psychic powers or passing off psychic accounts in a dismissive manner. 71
