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Re: World upside-down


  • From: P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: World upside-down
  • Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 13:06:51 PDT

> I'm afraid I can't cite literature without doing more research than I care to
> bother with, but I didn't exactly pick the story up on the street corner. I
> first heard it a number of years ago in a psych class at USC from a guest
> lecturer who was one of the scientists who conducted the original experiment. He
> had photos of the experiment, and a pair of the original goggles used in it.
> I've seen the photos reproduced in other articles on the experiment since. If it
> is "pseudo-science folklore," it's the most complex scientific hoax since the
> Piltdown man.

I recall the research as well.  I vaguely recall a connection with Duke University,
but recall that only vaguely.

Mike K.


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