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peer review process so as to discover and correct any loop-holes in the integrity of the experiments. After all, there is no use in doing a "controlled experiment" only to find the experiment invalid because of some missed flaw. Additionally, the sealed thermistors had to run by themselves for a long time so as to establish their base lines and ensure that no other errant temperatures were affecting them. This involved miles of graph paper and computer analysis of the temperatures inside the thermistors to determine that they were working properly. Meanwhile, I began responding to an invitation of Dr. Karlis Osis to become a test subject at The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) -- which I'll begin narrating in the next chapter. Also meanwhile, the gossip lines were running hot and heavy, and various complex situations were building up. For one thing, my emergence as a "psychic" seemed to mean in the minds of the public that I WAS one. Via Buell Mullen's circle and Zelda's, many requests for "readings" came in. Both Buell and Zelda first took it as a matter of course that I would give such readings, if only to buttress my vapid economic circumstances. And here we run across the equation that if one is psychic then one is expected to do everything science fiction attributes to them, which is to "know everything."