[HN Gopher] CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
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       CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
        
       Author : dvrp
       Score  : 84 points
       Date   : 2025-12-29 03:16 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | meindnoch wrote:
       | TLDR? Goat-staring is real?
        
         | Xmd5a wrote:
         | There is a regain of interest in these topics. See what's
         | happening here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GATEresearch/
        
         | krapp wrote:
         | "real" in that the program existed and research was done? Yes.
         | 
         | "real" in that remote viewing and psychic powers actually
         | exist? No.
         | 
         | The CIA researched a ton of "mind-control" techniques under
         | MKULTRA too but that doesn't mean they can control your mind.
         | 
         | The government has programs to research UFOs but that doesn't
         | mean aliens are buzzing our skies and kidnapping our cattle.
         | 
         | I think what we're really seeing here is just money laundering
         | and confirmation bias.
        
           | DANmode wrote:
           | > that doesn't mean they can control your mind.
           | 
           | If the attacker has physical access, assume your system is
           | not safe.
        
         | hosh wrote:
         | > TLDR? Goat-staring is real?
         | 
         | The movie was based on the work of a journalist investigating
         | the topic and wrote a non-fiction book on the subject.
        
       | kubb wrote:
       | It's hard to believe that so recently, "serious" people would
       | fund research of literal mumbo jumbo. By all means, the 90s was a
       | different time epistemologically.
       | 
       | We aren't immune to this today, far from it, though the hoaxes
       | have become way more believable in my assessment.
        
         | exe34 wrote:
         | > By all means, the 90s was a different time epistemologically
         | 
         | We're in an age when vaccines are treated as the enemy and the
         | us health secretary believes paracetamol causes autism.
        
           | Mistletoe wrote:
           | The Tylenol thing is one of the least crazy things he has
           | believed in, at least it had some initial studies suggesting
           | it. There's no science at all in most of his beliefs.
        
         | willis936 wrote:
         | The CIA has been this way since basically its inception. It's
         | where a bunch of lead-lined brains are given unreasonable
         | budgets and discretion.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Science_and_Tec...
        
           | firesteelrain wrote:
           | It appears this was actually authorized by Congress.
           | 
           | " In the FY 1991 Defense Authorization Act, the Defense
           | Intelligence Agency (DIA) was identified as executive agent
           | for initiating a new program to investigate
           | parapsychological/ anomalous phenomena. A funding level of $2
           | million was authorized for DIA to undertake specific research
           | and other activities relative to this activity. Objectives of
           | this authorization were to enable a systematic and
           | scientifically sound approach to the R&D effort, to permit
           | wider and more systematic review of potential intelligence
           | applications, and to assess foreign developments in this
           | area."
           | 
           | It was taken serious enough to be funded for two decades
           | starting in the 70s. Eventually it was terminated when the
           | strategic pressure eased.
           | 
           | AIR was commissioned to look at the research and says in this
           | [1]
           | 
           | "A three-component program involving basic research,
           | operations, and foreign assessment has been in place for some
           | time... beginning in the 1970s, it has conducted a program
           | intended to investigate the application of one paranormal
           | phenomenon -- remote viewing, or the ability to describe
           | locations one has not visited."
           | 
           | "The AIR review found that remote viewing produced occasional
           | hits that were statistically better than chance, but it
           | remains unclear whether the observed effects can
           | unambiguously be attributed to paranormal phenomena, and the
           | laboratory conditions under which effects were seen do not
           | generalize to real intelligence problems. The information
           | provided by remote viewing was judged vague and ambiguous,
           | making it difficult or impossible for the technique to yield
           | information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable
           | intelligence."
           | 
           | 1. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-
           | RDP96-00791R0002001...
        
             | RobotToaster wrote:
             | > A funding level of $2 million was authorized
             | 
             | In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if
             | there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did would
             | be huge.
        
               | firesteelrain wrote:
               | I agree. $2million is small. Where I work, I am regularly
               | given budgets well over that to buy software or hardware.
        
               | lagniappe wrote:
               | At the time, 2 million was an appreciable sum. Maybe not
               | to a government, but that wasn't chump change back then
               | the way it is now.
        
               | firesteelrain wrote:
               | That is true. I didn't take into account inflation.
        
               | lagniappe wrote:
               | Sadly, I don't think any of us did or do.
        
           | drpepper42 wrote:
           | Yeah pretty much this unfortunately. Imagine some person
           | tasked and genuinely interested in helping the united states
           | but they do it all with subterfuge which backfires more than
           | it helps anything. Such a person must experience a lot of
           | cognitive dissonance and would generally be susceptible to
           | conspiracy theories such as this which only reinforces the
           | cycle of meddling.
        
         | namanyayg wrote:
         | How do we know if something is "mumbo jumbo" until we actually
         | check and verify it?
        
           | kubb wrote:
           | I see you're interested in epistemology yourself. You should
           | study it.
        
         | antonvs wrote:
         | I'm not sure it's changed that much. Look at the work around
         | the em drive. Or fusion power for that matter. I'm not saying
         | we shouldn't be researching fusion, but all the fusion
         | "startups" are essentially jokes, or more charitably, monuments
         | to the unwarranted hubris of investment capital.
        
         | ifh-hn wrote:
         | The benefits of hindsight. I'm sure in 30 odd years someone
         | will be making the same comments about our current hoaxes.
        
           | kubb wrote:
           | And we will have new hoaxes by then.
           | 
           | The embarrassing part is that we can identify many of them
           | already, before the historical consensus catches on.
        
             | MangoToupe wrote:
             | That's the whole thing about consensus tho, it's hardly
             | embarrassing
        
             | Teever wrote:
             | Do you have any examples of these easily identifiable
             | contemporary hoaxes?
        
               | kubb wrote:
               | Are there any areas in which you'd feel attacked if I
               | poined out a hoax?
        
               | Teever wrote:
               | Not at all.
               | 
               | I enjoy the subject of conspiracies and hoaxes without
               | holding a strong personal affinity towards any particular
               | one.
        
               | kubb wrote:
               | Cool, the low hanging fruit then:
               | 
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories
               | _pr...
        
         | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
         | It's perfectly rational to allocate a bit of money towards
         | investigating unlikely phenomenon. In this case, it started
         | around the 70s and it was believed that the Soviet Union was
         | also doing research into paranormal effects, so even if people
         | were skeptical it seems prudent to allocate funds and research
         | if there's anything there.
        
         | PaulRobinson wrote:
         | Congratulations, you're the new head of the Department of War.
         | It's Day 1 in your new role.
         | 
         | An admiral walks in and sits down and tells you that he'd like
         | some money to research some unidentified aircraft that are
         | buzzing US Navy pilots. Shaped like "tic tacs", that seem to
         | defy physical laws - they accelerate incredibly fast and seem
         | to be able to move between air and water without damaging their
         | structure, even at high-speed. They've been caught on camera
         | multiple times, and pilots don't know what to make of them.
         | 
         | You ask what is this "mumbo jumbo", and whether he is
         | "serious". He points out to you that if these aircraft are
         | Russian or Chinese in origin, given there is no defence against
         | them, they pose a major threat to national security and your
         | refusal to take them seriously will not bode well for you in
         | the annals of time if they do turn out to be a threat.
         | 
         | You agree to funding a small program to research further.
         | 
         | Then an Army General walks in. He wants $2m for a program to
         | research "remote viewing" and "psychokinesis". You sit in awe
         | as he explains: multiple independent laboratories have been
         | able to conduct experiments that show Extra-Sensory Perception,
         | Remote Viewing and Psychokinesis may be real despite not being
         | explained by any current physical model. There is intelligence
         | to suggest that Chinese and Russian militaries are investing in
         | these techniques and the US military is not able to defend
         | against them if they're real and exploited by adversaries, or
         | for the USA to exploit them either, because they have no
         | understanding of them.
         | 
         | You hand wave it away as "mumbo jumbo" and state this is not
         | the work of "serious people". You demand a physical model to
         | explain it before you invest.
         | 
         | You are reminded that there is no single physical model that
         | explains the entirety of how an aircraft wing works, or how
         | anaesthetics work, and that the only way such models are
         | created is through scientific investigation. If after spending
         | the $2m they're able to show such claims are baseless, that is
         | a null result that has value in that it shows the Russians and
         | Chinese are also not a threat to US National Security.
         | 
         | You are reminded that such techniques may pose a major threat
         | to national security and your refusal to take them seriously
         | will not bode well for you in the annals of time if they do
         | turn out to be a threat.
         | 
         | You agree to funding a small program to research further.
         | 
         | And on it goes. It's Occam's razor - if you commit to the
         | scientific method, you have to commit to it. If you are
         | concerned there is a science and technology that others have
         | and you don't, you need to figure out if there is value in you
         | being able to obtain that science or technology, even if it
         | sounds like "mumbo jumbo" today.
         | 
         | These weren't idiots, they weren't corrupt, they were asking
         | for tiny slithers of money to figure out if Western
         | Civilisation was about to collapse into the hands of a few
         | people who asked more questions.
        
         | dwroberts wrote:
         | Another element that is ignored in all of this is: How much of
         | this is really intended to be genuine research? The CIA is an
         | intelligence agency, and misdirection is part of counter-
         | intelligence.
         | 
         | Putting legitimate resources into a phony cause could be an
         | effective way of leading an enemy astray, if you know they are
         | intercepting or replicating the same research you're doing (or
         | if you happen to " leak " details to them).
        
       | franky47 wrote:
       | Disappointing they didn't have their research facility in
       | Cheyenne Mountain.
        
         | jjk166 wrote:
         | Probably for the best, that place is dealing with weird alien
         | phenomena like every week.
        
       | noworld wrote:
       | I always thought this was interesting.
       | 
       | May 15, 1987: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-
       | RDP96-00789R0017000...
       | 
       | May 17, 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident
        
         | namanyayg wrote:
         | What does the first pdf mean?
         | 
         | (And does it remind anyone else of an ee cummings poem or is it
         | just me)
        
           | finalarbiter wrote:
           | The first PDF is the results/notes of someone attempting
           | remote viewing. Given the dates, I agree with the above
           | poster that the similarities are impressive.
        
           | noworld wrote:
           | The first PDF is the record of a remote viewing session from
           | 2 days before the USS Stark incident, and it is eerily
           | similar to the incident. The feelings and "atmosphere" (can't
           | think of a better word for it) sound like what you might
           | expect on a ship being attacked by a random missile.
           | 
           | For example:
           | 
           | 1. The drawing on p. 7 looks like the superstructure of a
           | warship.
           | 
           | 2. The next few pages might describe what it feels like to
           | wonder if your ship is actually under missile attack.
           | 
           | 3. On page 10 it records "aircraft--large, multiengined;
           | distant; orbiting; distraction controlled, directed. 'Under
           | orders.'" This USNI article has a little more detail on the
           | AWACS plane detecting the incoming attack:
           | https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-
           | magazine/2017/j...
           | 
           | There are other similarities, but the CIA report predates the
           | attack, which is especially strange.
        
             | FuturisticLover wrote:
             | Yeah, Remote Viewing should be a real-time event. This is
             | Precognition.
        
               | therobots927 wrote:
               | Why does it need to be real- time? If rv is possible then
               | it's naive to assume that time is somehow "special" vs
               | 3D. It's possible that time is not unfolding linearly,
               | that is only an illusion. "Remote" could involve
               | accessing information from along the time dimension.
        
               | FuturisticLover wrote:
               | I guess that makes sense. My tiny brain is still
               | processing all the information. Thinking beyond 3D or
               | space/time is impossible for me.
        
               | dylan604 wrote:
               | Long ago I was told of looking at a timeline so that time
               | "travels" from left to right is the _normal_ view, but
               | now rotate that timeline so that it appears as a dot to
               | you. You now see all events of the timeline, but without
               | reference to  "when" they happened. Lots of scifi plots
               | are also described as such
        
               | therobots927 wrote:
               | Think about a maze drawn on a piece of paper. Because
               | we're in 3D you can see all of the maze at once but if
               | you were a 2D entity inside the maze you would only see
               | the walls / entrances / exits directly in front or behind
               | you. Now imagine drawing a line from the entrance to the
               | exit - that's 2D + a time dimension. Now make it a 3D
               | maze and an entity existing outside of spacetime would be
               | able to see all events happening at once in 3D.
        
             | squigz wrote:
             | How many of these 'remote viewing' sessions didn't bear any
             | similarities to anything?
             | 
             | If you throw a bunch of stuff at a wall, some of it is
             | going to stick. Especially when it appears to be random
             | words that can be applicable to millions of situations.
        
               | an0malous wrote:
               | > Using the standards applied to any other area of
               | science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has
               | been well established. The statistical results of the
               | studies examined are far beyond what is ex- pected by
               | chance. Arguments that these results could be due to
               | methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly
               | refuted. Effects of a magnitude similar to those found in
               | government sponsored research at SRI and SAIC have been
               | replicated at a number of laboratories around the world.
               | Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of
               | flaws or fraud.
               | 
               | From Jessica Utts, who was the president of the American
               | Statistical Association and asked to review the Stanford
               | Research Institute psychic programs (including Star
               | Gate).
               | 
               | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333228024_An_Ass
               | ess...
        
               | someothherguyy wrote:
               | That says 2019, but it was published in 1995:
               | 
               | https://ics.uci.edu/~jutts/air.pdf
               | 
               | This goes into way more detail and covers Utts's work.
               | 
               | https://www.priory-of-sion.com/biblios/images/mumford.pdf
               | 
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Utts
        
               | squigz wrote:
               | > Using the standards applied to any other area of
               | science
               | 
               | Assuming this is true, I have to wonder why it would be
               | that the science community apparently places a higher
               | burden of proof on this sort of research, and whether
               | that higher standard has been earned or not.
        
               | the_af wrote:
               | > _If you throw a bunch of stuff at a wall, some of it is
               | going to stick. Especially when it appears to be random
               | words that can be applicable to millions of situations._
               | 
               | Indeed. I'm amazed so many HN regulars are surprised by
               | this. It's how horoscopes work, we've known this for
               | centuries now.
               | 
               | Have people forgotten the scientific method, the
               | standards of proof, etc?
        
             | akatechis wrote:
             | > the CIA report predates the attack, which is especially
             | strange
             | 
             | It's only strange if you believe the CIA released notes
             | from their super-secret psychic program rather than the
             | more plausible explanation that this is disinformation that
             | was backdated for a boost of prestige.
        
               | noworld wrote:
               | Can you give me some evidence that this document was
               | backdated? I'm not saying the government isn't shady AF,
               | but I just wonder what's behind the immediate jump to
               | "this has to be BS" rather than keeping an open mind.
        
               | the_af wrote:
               | Extraordinary claims (that RV is a real phenomenon)
               | require extraordinary evidence. The null hypothesis is
               | the default position, it requires no extraordinary
               | evidence; the opposite does.
               | 
               | This is scientific method 101. Let's not pretend we're
               | not familiar with it just because some dodgy CIA document
               | surfaced.
        
               | noworld wrote:
               | Ah, since the claim contradicts materialism, you get to
               | make up a scenario, present no evidence, then put the
               | burden on the other side. Got it.
               | 
               | There's literally extraordinary evidence in the PDF, you
               | just don't like it.
        
               | the_af wrote:
               | I didn't make up any scenario. RV is the made up
               | scenario.
               | 
               | If you want to reject the scientific method go ahead, but
               | you won't find much sympathy here.
        
         | perfmode wrote:
         | Interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing.
        
         | FuturisticLover wrote:
         | This is so shocking, considering the similarities.
         | 
         | Reality is indeed stranger than fiction.
        
         | ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote:
         | There just as much completely unrelated to the incident in that
         | as there is related.
         | 
         | Also, what guarantee is there that whomever created that
         | document didn't just date it two days prior to acquire more
         | funding for doing spooky things?
        
           | noworld wrote:
           | I don't think there's a "guarantee" that it wasn't backdated,
           | but there isn't any evidence of that either.
        
             | the_af wrote:
             | Since backdating would be one of the ways to fake this, the
             | onus lies in those that claim the prediction was legit.
             | 
             | That's how evidence works for extraordinary claims. Alas,
             | scientific rigor is a harsh master.
        
         | anthk wrote:
         | https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp...
         | 
         | More info:
         | 
         | http://shpenkov.com/pdf/microleptonsEng.pdf
        
       | mberning wrote:
       | I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he has
       | worked on all these secret projects for decades even though he
       | cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes of
       | those programs were. But he is able to talk about them for hours
       | in the vaguest terms possible. How is that even possible. I mean
       | I worked for an aerospace company for 5 years and could go into
       | great and boring detail about what I did while I was there. But
       | all these people supposedly worked on things much more exotic and
       | can't remember anything. This is the greatest psyop of all time.
        
         | tiku wrote:
         | Also it would be very easy to proof that it really works.
         | Instead they remain vague. They remind me of the dropship sales
         | boys, that mainly sell courses on how to dropship instead of
         | dropshipping themselves.
         | 
         | If you find a believer they will worship you with no hard
         | questions.
        
         | Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
         | > I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he
         | has worked on all these secret projects for decades even though
         | he cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes
         | of those programs were.
         | 
         | This is one hundred perfect my view on this, and things are
         | more than suspicious when suddenly being asked to get into the
         | weeds on some technical aspect these guys start citing national
         | security to keep things vague.
        
       | diogenes_atx wrote:
       | No surprise here. The geniuses at the CIA failed to anticipate
       | the fall of the Soviet Union, ignored the warning signs about
       | 9/11, and falsely claimed there were "weapons of mass
       | destruction" in Iraq during the American invasion in 2003.
       | Apparently the so-called intelligence agency was busy with
       | important research on "telepathy," "psychokinesis" and other
       | "para-psychological phenomena."
        
         | logicchains wrote:
         | >falsely claimed there were "weapons of mass destruction" in
         | Iraq during the American invasion in 2003
         | 
         | This was due to malice not ignorance/incompetence.
        
           | diogenes_atx wrote:
           | Well in that case, the CIA is not merely stupid and
           | incompetent, it's deliberately evil. How many innocent
           | civilians were slaughtered in Iraq during the American
           | occupation?
        
             | m4ck_ wrote:
             | I mean yeah, that's the Americas in general since Europeans
             | first put eyes on it. ~500 years of brutality and slaughter
             | in pursuit of profit. We're gonna do it again in Venezuela
             | and probably Denmark/Greenland. C'est la vie
        
               | stuffn wrote:
               | Ah yes, the quintessential noble savage fallacy.
               | 
               | Before the evil Europeans set their greedy eyes on the
               | new world there was peace, love, and ecstasy every single
               | day. Once the evil Europeans did evil European things the
               | Americas were corrupted for profit and greed. Now the
               | Venezuelans who live in peace and love will be colonized
               | by European descendents, just like natives before.
        
               | freejazz wrote:
               | > Before the evil Europeans set their greedy eyes on the
               | new world there was peace, love, and ecstasy every single
               | day.
               | 
               | That's reading a lot into the other post.
        
             | therobots927 wrote:
             | Evil and apparently experimenting with magic. Sounds like a
             | recipe for a good time.
        
         | kjkjadksj wrote:
         | I thought the story was the CIA and other intelligence said
         | there are not wmds, but the bush whitehouse said there were
         | anyhow and invaded all the same.
        
           | diogenes_atx wrote:
           | A Google search using the terms "did the CIA claim there were
           | weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003?" yields the
           | following information:
           | 
           | The CIA and the Bush administration claimed Iraq possessed
           | Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in 2003, building the case
           | for invasion on assertions that Saddam Hussein had active WMD
           | programs and failed to comply with UN resolutions, though
           | these claims proved to be incorrect after the invasion found
           | no stockpiles, leading to later acknowledgments of
           | intelligence failures...
           | 
           | CIA's Role: The CIA provided assessments, including
           | classified estimates, stating high confidence in Iraq's
           | possession of biological and chemical weapons, which formed
           | the basis for public statements by officials...
           | 
           | Intelligence Failures: Investigations later confirmed that
           | the intelligence community was "simply wrong" in its
           | assessments, highlighting failures in analysis and sourcing,
           | despite intelligence professionals believing their
           | information at the time...
           | 
           | In summary, the CIA and U.S. government did assert the
           | presence of WMDs, but these claims were later disproven,
           | revealing significant flaws in the intelligence used to
           | justify the war.
        
       | cushychicken wrote:
       | It's only dumb if it doesn't work.
       | 
       | If it works... well, congratulations. You now have an edge that
       | no one else knows about.
        
       | sxp wrote:
       | For those who want to consider the mundane explanation about
       | remote viewing: remember that humans can still be surprised by
       | the birthday paradox and other synchronicities that occur when
       | sampling data at large scale. So across thousands of sessions,
       | the weak coincidences documented by the Stargate project are
       | expected.
       | 
       | For those who want a skeptical & cynical view: if remote viewing
       | works, it would be part of the standard strategy of every hedge
       | fund. Remember that theses are groups who pay millions for
       | millisecond advantages in information. And you only need an
       | ~51-55% success rate to make a killing in HFT (vs a 50% success
       | rate from a coinflip). The fact that hedge funds don't have
       | remote viewers on staff is evidence against RV providing utility
       | greater than an RNG.
       | 
       | And for curious people who want to try a scientific approach, I
       | suggest joining https://www.social-rv.com/ which is collecting
       | data about RV and trying to make the experiment ironclad via
       | blockchain authentication of predictions.
        
         | lofaszvanitt wrote:
         | Or certain knowledge is just not available for anyone. No
         | matter how much power and money you have. There are a lot of
         | areas that are buried underneath technology, while it is an
         | innate ability to certain individuals. Most people do not
         | really understand how their gadgets work or what they are
         | capable of beyond what is advertised....
        
         | pmontra wrote:
         | Hedge funds? Yes but before than that, armies would use RV to
         | get targets, secrets, etc. There are plenty of wars around the
         | world and a lot of money involved.
        
         | bfuller wrote:
         | What would be the price of revealing this information
         | advantage?
        
           | sxp wrote:
           | There have been hedge funds and other investment groups that
           | claim to use RV. (At least according to Google and pro-RV
           | books.) They also claim to be able to beat the market. Based
           | on those anecdotes, I think any hedge fund that thinks they
           | can use RV will publicly brag about it to get more investors.
           | 
           | None of these groups can replicate their results beyond the
           | initial claims. This is strong evidence that positive results
           | in RV are just due to selection bias, specifically
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias. If those
           | investment groups could actually replicate their results,
           | they would still be major names and others would be actively
           | trying to copy them since it should only take a couple of
           | millions of dollars to find capable RV candidates.
           | 
           | The non-skeptical view is that if people try to predict the
           | stock market via RV, they will interfere with the future and
           | their prediction ability will decrease. But when weighing
           | this hypothesis against the hypothesis that RV is just
           | selection bias, the latter wins due to Occam's Razor.
        
         | kjkjadksj wrote:
         | The issue with remote viewing as the CIA understood it was not
         | that it didn't work. By all means there are documents that
         | indicated it did work. The difficulty however was that the
         | training program was unreliable and insufficient to establish a
         | reliable pipeline to competency like other military skills.
        
           | the_af wrote:
           | The "difficulty" with remote viewing is nonsense
           | pseudoscience and crackpottery.
           | 
           | It absolutely does not work. Not "unreliably", but not work
           | at all.
           | 
           | This reminds me of that one time on HN when someone tried to
           | convince me that ritual witchcraft (I think they called it
           | blood magic) on servers was a real thing, necessary to make
           | them work, and my dismissal was typical of narrow minded
           | people.
        
             | mnky9800n wrote:
             | I would be supportive of blood magic if it made things work
             | lol
        
         | fumeux_fume wrote:
         | Just go to wikipedia for the mundane explanation: data leakage
         | to the judges of poorly designed experiments. Absolutely zero
         | reproducibility.
        
         | MontyCarloHall wrote:
         | Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/808/
        
         | jjk166 wrote:
         | > For those who want a skeptical & cynical view: if remote
         | viewing works, it would be part of the standard strategy of
         | every hedge fund.
         | 
         | Please don't use the efficient capitalism argument. By that
         | logic, if polio vaccines worked then why didn't 1940s pharma
         | companies sell polio vaccines back when people were getting
         | polio?
         | 
         | Remote viewing is bunk, but not because hedge funds in their
         | omniscience have determined it to be unprofitable.
        
       | someothherguyy wrote:
       | https://centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads...
        
       | escanda wrote:
       | I am from Spain and know some agents. Those are also known events
       | under the freemasonry term umbrella.
       | 
       | I have seen, after writing through Tor to a known intelligence
       | agency, a ministry of a cabinet through my inner eye, or whatever
       | you may call it.
       | 
       | Black and white video so to speak. I was even threatened by a
       | twice loaded gun so I could go away to my own businesses in that
       | affair.
       | 
       | I can talk without being in the same room with a lot of cni
       | agents, and interestingly, this is not a known fact of the
       | intelligence community outside it.
       | 
       | I can even receive and transmit figures using my mind alone.
       | Tested with a CIA agent. Greets to the spy museum series.
       | 
       | I would predict in the past, a year ago or so, a future event
       | seen as it was filmed. Also diverted pathways in the past: if I
       | could have went into the foreign legion I could be dead at the
       | time and my mother could had defenestrated herself after being
       | noticed by two officers: movie style too.
       | 
       | Sometimes I have listened to people thoughts, small phrases
       | without them noticing.
       | 
       | Disclaimer: I am not on any agency payroll at this time.
        
         | sph wrote:
         | Given that you yourself have admitted you have schizophrenia in
         | a recent comment, I find it hard to give much weight to your
         | "paranormal" experiences. Confirmation bias affects all, those
         | that can hear voices and those that can't. I hope you
         | understand.
        
           | escanda wrote:
           | I understand you might be 19 years old and you might not yet
           | understand fully what surrounds you. Better you don't.
        
       | t1234s wrote:
       | This is an excellent book that cover how wild this project was
       | (website has incorrect url slug):
       | https://www.anniejacobsen.com/operation-paperclip-1
        
       | CactusBlue wrote:
       | Also (potentially) related?:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwLSuF8vXg
        
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