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app, including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. When we first heard about a Harvard psychiatrist who claimed autistic children could read minds,

well, to be frank, we thought it was bullshit.

I'm really trying to dial in the mechanism here.

I suspect that they're in synchrony, that we'll see a brainwave synchronization

between the two. What the fuck is going on? But after reading Dr. Powell's book, the ESP Enigma,

and hearing her featured in the hit podcast, The Telepathy Tapes, we couldn't ignore the evidence

anymore. And then when they ask the child, what's going on here? The child says, oh, I'm reading your mind. Dr. Diane Powell isn't some internet quack. She's a Johns Hopkins

trained neuroscientist who was teaching at Harvard when something happened that changed her

entire career. She said to me, your husband's a chemist. That got my attention because my husband was a

biochemist. And then she said, and he's applying for a job in two different cities right now. And that

really got my attention because that very week, he was applying for a postdoc back at Johns Hopkins

where we met and at UC San Diego. That is spooky. Yeah. But here's the most disturbing part. It's not the claims of

telepathic children that's irrational. It's the scientific establishment refusing to look at

evidence that challenges their worldview. It seems like people want to stand on the cliff edge and

close their eyes and pretend like the opposite side of the cliff edge isn't even there. Meanwhile,

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