Somebody had to ask.

Over almost three decades, a small laboratory at Princeton University managed to embarrass university administrators, outrage Nobel laureates, entice the support of philanthropists and make headlines around the world with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the course of events.

But at the end of the month, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, or PEAR, will close, not because of controversy but because, its founder says, it is time.

The laboratory has conducted studies on extrasensory perception and telekinesis from its cramped quarters in the basement of the universityÂ’s engineering building since 1979. Its equipment is aging, its finances dwindling.

Interestingly enough, this research was privately funded. That argues in favor of the notion that scientific research can proceed just fine without infusions of government cash. Not only that, it also disproves the fraudulent notion -- foisted upon the American people by the advocates of fetal stem-cell research -- that research not funded by the government is banned.

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