Skepticality #229 - America's Imaginary Hostage Crisis - Interview: Andrew Endersby
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English - April 15, 2014 20:36 - 1 hour - 43.2 MB - ★★★★ - 466 ratingsScience Society & Culture culture randi jref radio science secular shermer show skeptic skepticality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Skepticality was the recipient of the 'Ockham's Razor Award for Best Podcast 2014! Along with a short announcement about that, this week Derek talks with author Andrew Endersby about his newest book, "America's Imaginary Hostage Crisis". In 1979 a group of Iranian students invaded and occupied the US Embassy in Tehran. The United States military decided the best way to try to deal with the event was to use a group of newly 'trained' psychics using remote viewing to determine what was going on within the walls of the embassy. Now that the actual papers which detail what the remote viewers actually reported, how accurate were they, really?