Comments on: Psychics ‘hired to find Bin Laden’ http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2007/02/25/psychics-hired-to-find-bin-laden/ News, notes, updates, and insights from the editors and staff of Hampton Roads Publishing Company Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bo Kindstrand http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2007/02/25/psychics-hired-to-find-bin-laden/#comment-5257 Bo Kindstrand Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:48:32 +0000 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2007/02/25/psychics-hired-to-find-bin-laden/#comment-5257 <i>Here is a thoughtful "must read" from Paul H. Smith, addressing Britain's Ministry of Defense remote viewing research</i> : <b>They Think They Know</b> A few days ago when I first read the newspaper reports revealing that Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) had researched psychic skills, I started scribbling down a table-thumping rant about how wrong-headed the research had been – not because it had been done at all (which I otherwise applaud) but because of how poorly-conceived it had been, at least according to the newspapers. Before I published my rant far and wide, someone fortunately pointed me to the actual 168-page declassified report, where I could read a more detailed account of what the MoD had actually done. I discovered that the news stories were embarrassingly oversimplified and incomplete, and that the research was not as ill-advised as reporters had claimed. It was still flawed, which I discuss below – <b>but the whole affair amounts to the latest example of society’s self-perpetuating ignorance of the nature of “psychic phenomena” in general and remote viewing in particular</b>. <b><a href="http://www.rviewer.com/TheyThinkTheyKnow.pdf" rel="nofollow">Click here to read the 6 page article</a> [pdf format - 1.3 M] </b> Here is a thoughtful “must read” from Paul H. Smith, addressing Britain’s Ministry of Defense remote viewing research :

They Think They Know

A few days ago when I first read the newspaper reports revealing that Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) had researched psychic skills, I started scribbling down a table-thumping rant about how wrong-headed the research had been – not because it had been done at all (which I otherwise applaud) but because of how poorly-conceived it had been, at least according to the newspapers. Before I published my rant far and wide, someone fortunately pointed me to the actual 168-page declassified report, where I could read a more detailed account of what the MoD had actually done. I discovered that the news stories were embarrassingly oversimplified and incomplete, and that the research was not as ill-advised as reporters had claimed. It was still flawed, which I discuss below – but the whole affair amounts to the latest example of society’s self-perpetuating ignorance of the nature of “psychic phenomena” in general and remote viewing in particular.

Click here to read the 6 page article [pdf format - 1.3 M]

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