An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf]
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#3Final Recommendation/Conclusion (from the document):
As an admitted neophyte in this area of endeavor, I categorize the field as a kind of religion, i.e., you either have "faith" that it indeed is something real, albeit fleeting and unique, or you "disbelieve" and attribute all positive results to either chicanery or pure chance.' Practicioners in the field, including those funded under government contracts, would argue with these observations, perhaps vehemently; some would argue further that the phenomenology has been verified beyond question already. This reviewer disagrees; albeit, these observations are not intended to discard the possibility of such phenomena.
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#4I find parapsychology a very interesting field: the kind of scrutiny that is applied to its experiments is so much higher than with anything else in the social sciences - and usually the bar gets higher and higher until someone gives up, who is convinced remains convinced, who is not convinced remains unconvinced . That's fascinating.
For context: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Utts
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#5I find parapsychology a very interesting field: the kind of scrutiny that is applied to its experiments is so much higher than with anything else in the social sciences - and usually the bar gets higher and higher until someone gives up, who is convinced remains convinced, who is not convinced remains unconvinced . That's fascinating. For context: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Utts
Good take and thanks for a link I hadn’t come across in this space
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#6Weird how psy was everywhere in the mid to late 20th century. It showed up in science fiction constantly, as if it was just going to inevitably pop up.
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#7Final Recommendation/Conclusion (from the document): As an admitted neophyte in this area of endeavor, I categorize the field as a kind of religion, i.e., you either have "faith" that it indeed is something real, albeit fleeting and unique, or you "disbelieve" and attribute all positive results to either chicanery or pure chance.' Practicioners in the field, including those funded under government contracts, would ar…
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#8Weird how psy was everywhere in the mid to late 20th century. It showed up in science fiction constantly, as if it was just going to inevitably pop up.
It does allow for trivial parallel construction: "that? oh, we got that from our psy squad"
[this century, we have both The Men who Stare at Goats and First Squad: The Moment of Truth releasing in 2009, but we do seem to have had a distinct shortage of Bigfoots and Bermuda Triangles ever since smartphones became widespread]
Re: An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf]
#9I find parapsychology a very interesting field: the kind of scrutiny that is applied to its experiments is so much higher than with anything else in the social sciences - and usually the bar gets higher and higher until someone gives up, who is convinced remains convinced, who is not convinced remains unconvinced . That's fascinating. For context: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Utts
I bet a lot of social sciences and psychology research would crumble if subjected to this level of scrutiny and default-skepticism. The harder sciences would probably fare better but you’d still find a lot of wishful thinking, dodgy borderline effects, p hacking, and fraud. You’d probably winnow science down to a very solid core, which would be a good thing but would leave you with a lot of math, physics, chemistry, etc. and a lot less other stuff.
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#10Weird how psy was everywhere in the mid to late 20th century. It showed up in science fiction constantly, as if it was just going to inevitably pop up.
It did. Thought control (the advanced and fully formed secret governance of power among us) doesn’t allow this secret to be explored.
My comments and accounts keep getting banned for expressing these unfashionable ideas (even without the provocative bits.)
We are not alone in our own minds!