Remote Viewing Test Results:
Read all about it, the Twitter Remote Viewing experiment by New Scientist and the University of Hertfordshire has failed – 2.0 style.
If you haven’t heard about this psychic experiment conducted over the popular social website, Twitter, the University of Hertfordshire and New Scientist came together to do research about whether people could actually remote view.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
Prof. Wiseman lodged himself at a secret location on four occasions last week and solicited input from Twitterers around the world to chime in on where they thought he was. After they did that, he tweeted a Web site where participants could choose between five photos representing the correct location and four decoys.
Most got it wrong. “In the first trial I was looking at a striking modern building, but a majority — 35% — of the group thought that I was in some woods,” he said. “The same pattern emerged in all four trials.”
Interestingly, Prof. Wiseman says those who believed in the paranormal (38% of the Twitter participants) were more likely than the skeptics to “convince themselves there was a high level of correspondence between their thoughts and the target.” He says that sort of creative thinking may be what’s necessary for someone to believe in the paranormal.
Even more than the study results, he thinks the study showed the potential for Twitter and other social-networking sites to conduct research.
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In my opinion, the research done was a waste of time and money by New Scientist and the University of Hertfordshire. It shed no light on what remote viewing really is, but conducting a trivial scientific study with a terrible approach. Perhaps Richard Wiseman, the Research Group Leader of this psychic experiment, could do a better one which would treat Remote Viewers with respect – where they would actually do a real scientific study on this amazing and powerful skill.
Twitter can be a powerful system as it is very popular, but like everything – scientific proof and reasoning should come from a solid base. No wonder it was an epic failure, Web 2.0 style.
What do you think about these results?
I've been a remote viewing enthusiast who has been blogging about this field for the last 2 years. More recently I've had the opportunity to personally meet and interview many of the leaders in this field including Ed Dames and Gerald O'Donnell. I share my stories, my interviews and interesting articles I've found on remote viewing here on this blog. Enjoy Reading. 
