{"id":4862,"date":"2011-09-21T01:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-09-21T01:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T01:48:37","slug":"uk-government-backs-esp-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/uk-government-backs-esp-research\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Backs ESP Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, in the UK the government can recognize an organization as an &#8220;official entity&#8221; and has done so for the <em>Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena<\/em> (ASSAP).<\/p>\n<p>Henceforth, the ASSAP is a &#8220;Professional Body.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website explains that such a body \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exists to further the interests of a particular profession, its clients, [and] the public at large\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, adding that professional bodies often set standards for their members. In the UK, for example, the British Psychological Society represents psychologists, the Institute of Civil Engineers represents civil engineers, and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, good, they&#8217;ll have standards, then!  <\/p>\n<p>This does not imply government funding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themortonreport.com\/discoveries\/paranormal\/uk-paranormal-research-gets-professional\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a writeup of the news.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, in the UK the government can recognize an organization as an &#8220;official entity&#8221; and has done so for the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP). Henceforth, the ASSAP is a &#8220;Professional Body.&#8221; The Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website explains that such a body \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exists to further the interests of a particular profession, its clients, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/uk-government-backs-esp-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Government Backs ESP Research?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1gq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}