The Twit­ter remote view­ing exper­i­ment was wide­spread and well-documented as a fail­ure. In fact, I have blogged about the exper­i­ment here. I found this arti­cle writ­ten by the Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Remote View­ing Asso­ci­a­tion and his thoughts on the exper­i­ment. I found it inter­est­ing, so I fig­ured I’d share it with other enthu­si­asts like myself.

The Inter­na­tional Remote View­ing Asso­ci­a­tion
Ques­tions Details of Twit­ter Remote View­ing Experiment

In just the past few days, para­psy­chol­o­gist and skep­tic Dr. Richard Wise­man has launched an inno­v­a­tive exper­i­ment on the Internet-based social net­work­ing ser­vice Twit­ter which aims to test the real­ity of the ESP-based phe­nom­e­non known as remote view­ing (RV). In the tra­di­tion of sim­i­lar mass exper­i­ments such as that con­ducted by Stephan Schwartz’s Moe­bius Group via Omni mag­a­zine in the 1980s, Dr. Wise­man hopes to enlist the aid of every­day humans in cre­at­ing a large sta­tis­ti­cal sam­pling that will either tell for or against remote viewing.

The Inter­na­tional Remote View­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, founded in 1999 by promi­nent for­mer mil­i­tary and civil­ian mem­bers of the remote view­ing com­mu­nity to dis­sem­i­nate infor­ma­tion about and respon­si­ble inves­ti­ga­tion into remote view­ing, applauds the imag­i­na­tive way Dr. Richard Wise­man is using Twit­ter to explore the exis­tence of this inter­est­ing phe­nom­e­non. We find the premise behind the experiment’s struc­ture to be inter­est­ing and gen­er­ally sound, and wish Dr. Wise­man well in demon­strat­ing a suc­cess­ful out­come once all results are calculated.

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