From: Remote Viewing: Exploring the Contours of a Controversial Psychic Phenomenon
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How can rigorous experimental design help separate genuine phenomena from cognitive biases?

Remote viewing’s history underscores the importance of strict controls in research to avoid false positives. This lesson applies broadly in critical thinking and evaluating extraordinary claims.

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Learn about blind and double-blind study designs and consider how they apply to everyday decision-making.

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The U.S. government sponsored a remote viewing research program called the Stargate Project from ...
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Remote viewing experiments historically suffered from poor controls and challenges in repeatability.
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Remote viewing was coined as a term in 1971 by parapsychologists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff ...
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