Scientists & Researchers

Ray Hyman

1972

University of Oregon psychologist commissioned by an Air Force-funded ARPA program to evaluate Uri Geller at SRI in the 1970s; concluded Geller was fraudulent, costing Puthoff and Targ their government contract to study him. Two decades later, served on the CIA-commissioned 1995 panel that concluded remote viewing had never produced actionable intelligence.

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Connections (3)

confirmedEdwin May

served on the 1995 CIA-commissioned review panel evaluating his program

Source: U.S. government remote-viewing program (Grill Flame/Stargate) history

disputedHal Puthoff

investigated his and Targ's testing of Uri Geller and found it fraudulent

Source: Ray Hyman, critiques of the SRI/Geller experiments (1977; The Elusive Quarry, 1989)

disputedDaryl Bem

his 2011 precognition paper drew prominent skeptical rebuttal

Source: Feeling the Future (2011); skeptical responses

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