Excerpts from a paper on the relative lack of psi researchers who are sufficiently trained in stage magic techniques of deception. This paper points out that the researches of Osis and Haraldsson into Sai Baba, where they were only spectators and could carry out no investigations of his supposed 'materializations' whatever were made after consultations with magicians, but indicates that these were not of a fruitful nature.

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Overview and critique of deception in parapsychology. (56 pages)
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