My Library

- 26 APRIL 1972 - Over the phone I told Dr. Hal Puthoff about the disgusting affair of the publishing committee's refusal to publish the papers. I remember having to go two times through the facts of the event because Hal had difficulty in making sense of them. He was, I think, bewildered. So I clarified a number of issues, including some which were ethical ones -- in my mind at least. I explained that the disgusting event had taken place so fast that the publishing committee obviously had not had time to submit the Osis/Mitchell papers to the peer review process, and which would have taken at least a month or more. So the decision not to publish had been an "executive" one. Translated, this meant that the decision not to publish had been based in authoritarian or totalitarian overviews of only a very few individuals. Then I said: "What this really means is that I am done for in parapsychology -- on my way out. And so I plan to fade into obscurity and write novels." Anyhow, this event had given me a very good excuse NOT to go to Stanford Research Institute. "If I came there, the chances are that YOUR reputation would get ruined, too."