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2 unusual facts about Project Alpha


Project Alpha

Perhaps the most famous example led to the downfall of TV evangelist and faith healer Peter Popoff, when Randi had a man pose as a woman with uterine cancer, which Popoff happily "cured".

In 1979, James S. McDonnell, board chairman of McDonnell Douglas and believer in the paranormal, awarded a USD $500,000 grant to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research.



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