I also knew very well that many parapsychologists design really bad experiments. In any event, their experiments are NOT designed to test for psi abilities, but to check out their own "scientific" theories. If the theory is bad or flawed, or just plain stupid, then so will the experiment be. I also have good things to say about parapsychologists, but only in general -- and which I'll embark upon narrating at particular points ahead in this tale of sagas and soap operas. There was also the matter of lies people tell about each other. There is an impressive history of this. There was also the matter of separating fact from fiction, and the matter of people who couldn't do so, or didn't want to -- or were even aware that such a matter exists. Zelda, Ruth Hagy Brod, and my mentors joyously kept me informed that wider interest in my humble self was building up, and I understood that also. So some kind of self-governing policy had to be designed by me for me, designed to negotiate me through all of the above dangers the best way possible. So, on New Year's Day, 1972, I designed and imposed on myself the following policy decisions. One I would never CLAIM anything, any ability. And indeed, I had so far never done so. All I had done was said I would TRY other people's experiments, or try experiments of my own design if such opportunities came about. To this date I have never once claimed I could do anything