I remember that the authors of ‘Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain’ were pushing this one in the 1970s. It’s one of those things only GPT-3 would believe right up there with watching Tik Tok can give you a tic.
The nature paper itself (it's not even a full page)<p><a href="https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/365611a0" rel="nofollow">https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/365611a0</a>