No. I doubt SRI will talk about it either. I could be wrong, of course… http://www.sri.com/about/
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SRI’s 63-acre main campus in Menlo Park has more than one million square feet of space, including 250,000 square feet of research labs. Our next largest location is in Washington, D.C. We also have almost 20 additional locations throughout the United States, as well as in Tokyo to ensure that we stay close to the clients we serve.
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One way to judge the quality of an organization is by the company it keeps. SRI’s client list includes a “who’s who” of global corporations, strategic government agencies, and foundations.
You could be right. If I worked for a company that had participated in a study of “remote viewing,” I might be reluctant to talk about it too, to avoid embarassment.
Ergo, he claims to have at least had psychic ability, even if it was short lived.
So, Lekatt, if you’re still checking in, I took this directly from one of your early posts. I didn’t edit the statement. It is exactly as you said it. Still deny any psychic ability?
Presented with unknown photos, how does one determine which are real and which are doctored?
What characteristics are present in real photos and absent in doctored photos? What characteristics are absent in real photos and present in doctored ones?
There are people who will, and do, talk about it. I don’t know if they are still with SRI though.
I though Hal Puthoff might be a good choice, but I see in this interview that he has left the field: http://www.forteantimes.com/exclusive/puthoff.shtml
Q: Some writers have suggested that the SRI tests on Uri Geller were deliberately botched in a cover up operation by the CIA.
A: Pure urban myth. We did our best, found evidence for remote viewing but not psychokinesis, and fairly reported what we found.
Q: What was your impression of Geller at the time? Are you still in touch?
A: We were always ambivalent, always concerned about possible trickery, but** (despite the detractors) were able to carry out experimentation under conditions sufficiently controlled that we have yet to hear of any loopholes that actually applied, **even after all these years. Rarely in touch, since my interests have diverged from that field.
Q: How do you feel about the breakup of the US military’s RV programme and the resulting fallout between RVers such as Ed Dames, Joeseph McMoneagle, David Moorhouse etc? Some of them seem to have done an “RV too far” and come out with some highly unlikely-sounding material. Might RV be bad for your mental health?
A: Certainly, some of the material generated under what we as experimenters would consider less than optimum conditions, has been flawed. But of course it was never anywhere near perfect, just could provide a statistical edge under usual conditions, occasionally dramatic results under rare conditions. I have no evidence that RV is likely to be bad for mental health more than other “mental” activities, such as meditating or going for a PhD!
Another name you might try is Russell Targ. From the same link:
Dr Hal Puthoff has been conducting serious scientific research at the frontiers of knowledge for over a quarter of a century.
In 1972, he and colleague Russell Targ, while researching lasers at the Stanford Research Institute, were asked by Edgar Mitchell to test the alleged psychic abilities of Uri Geller. Their paper caused something of a storm when it was published in the science journal Nature. The paper and relevant articles are linked to the bottom of this page.
Subsequently Puthoff was instrumental in setting up and running the US Government’s controversial Remote Viewing programme, which would continue for over 20 years beofre being made public in 1995.
GOM, babe, P+T are pretty much the poster boys for bad science. They’ve been repeatedly dissected by both Randi and Gardner, as well as contradicting themselves and changing their own stories repeatedly.
