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Project Alpha was an effort by magician James Randi to test the quality of scientific rigor of a well-known test of paranormal phenomena.. In the late 1970s, Randi contacted the newly established McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research ("MacLab") with suggestions on how to conduct tests for paranormal phenomena.
Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael (born 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster.During the 1970s energy crisis, Carmichael promoted a prototype for a low-cost fuel-efficient car via Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, which car was never produced, and fled with investor money. [1]
Lifespring was an American for-profit human potential organization founded in 1974 by John Hanley Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. [1] [2] [3] The organization encountered significant controversy in the 1970s and '80s, with various academic articles characterizing Lifespring's training methods as "deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control", and ...
Mark and Jay Duplass are returning to HBO -- this time with a brand-new docuseries, The Lady and the Dale, recounting a 1970s auto scam by transgender woman and entrepreneur Liz Carmichael. As she ...
The creators of "Room 104" are gearing up for a new docuseries about an entrepreneur behind an infamous 1970s auto scam. HBO Announces Duplass Brothers’ 1970s Auto-Scam Docuseries, Sets ...
U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]
Image source: Getty Images. Business impersonation scams are the most reported type of financial fraud. According to a May report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 332,000 people fell ...
The company was termed as part of the "big three" scams, in a 1974 United States Senate hearing before the Consumers of the Committee on Commerce that dealt with pyramid sales. [ 11 ] 1974 hearings before the Congressional Oversight panel of the Federal Trade Commission described Holiday Magic as a "Multi-level marketer of cosmetics", that used ...