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Not to take away from his accomplishments, but based on his Wikipedia entry, I think he's been a bit of a nutball for a long time...

"During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth."
"Mitchell says that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer, helped heal him of kidney cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a biopsy (the definitive test for cancer), "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma."

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Try and rationalize it away as long as you can.

It helps some folks sleep at night.