Category: Dispatches

Skeptic.com traces how a 1940s cover-up myth outlived every chance to prove itself.

Jessica Utts found a real statistical signal in the remote-viewing files. Ray Hyman found control flaws that explained it without one. Both reports are on the record. Neither has moved since 1995. The programme’s real error was not the disagreement; it was treating a lab effect as proof the field would follow. It didn’t: 59 operational cases, outcome unconfirmed.

The CIA spent two decades trying to build a controllable mind. It killed a man, proved nothing, and then set fire to the evidence.