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Approved For Release PNCE AS SIPPE BE 2R1800210001-0 (U) These are all bonafide scientific research and development institutes. In all, there have been 28 formal published replications of the remote- viewing work at SRI. Obviously, this phenomenon is not.an invention of SRI; it has been duplicated on a number of occasions. (U) In the past, the work in psychoenergetics was done by investi- gators with little or no training in science, and in a thanner that would be totally unacceptable to any scientific researcher. The history of this field is tainted by the laxity of controls and checks that must accompany scientific experimentation. In its early days, it could be best considered entertainment. Even then, however, there were some serious investigators. Sir William Crookes, Fellow of the British Royal Society, was one of the more notable. In addition, some order was brought to the field by J. B. Rhine of Duke University. He began imposing the scientific method, and he analyzed his results statistically. In the same manner;, SRI brought the remote-vieiwng phenomenon into the laboratory and scrutinized it, while applying all the conditions that any other science would receive. To the surprise of many, the psychoenergetic phenomenon withstood the test. Then, as with any science, the investigators continued to pursue their research and, when published, other laboratories confirmed the SRI findings. (U) Another indicator of the "quality" of science is where the work is being published. Two of the most extensive psi publications have been in the IEEE Journal. They are entitled, "A Perceptual Channel for Infor- mation Transfer Over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research," by Harold E,. Puthoff, Senior Research Engineer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (March 1976) and "The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective," by Robert G. Jahn, Dean of Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (February 1982). In addition, articles have been published in Nature and in the Proceedings of the AAAS Symposia (American Association for the Advancement of Science), as well as in various parapsychological journals. (U) Previously, none of the work could have passed the strict require- ments of the journals named. SRI was instrumental in elevating the field to a level where it has gained acceptance by major scientific journals. 6 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800210001-0 a TEESE |