Since 1979, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory made international headlines with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the course of events. This laboratory has been an embarrassment to the mainstream scientists of Princeton University because they felt that extrasensory perception (ESP) and telekinesis weren’t “real” science.

PEAR will close its doors at the end of the month because its founder, Robert G. Jahn, believes it’s time. The laboratory’s equipment is aging and its finances are dwindling. But the deciding factor in the decision was the lack of new resources to study.

“For 28 years, we’ve done what we wanted to do, and there’s no reason to stay and generate more of the same data,” said the laboratory’s founder, Robert G. Jahn, 76, former dean of Princeton’s engineering school and an emeritus professor. “If people don’t believe us after all the results we’ve produced, then they never will.”

Source: New York Times