The Craziness for Extra-Sensory Perception: Qigong Fever and the Science-Pseudoscience Debate in China
From 1979 to 1999, a heated dispute over the science or pseudoscience of extraordinary power or extrasensory perception (ESP) took place in China. During these two decades, many so-called “grandmasters” of ESP and Qigong emerged, and millions of people across the country studied with them; this was...
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