Reddit reviews Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
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LITTLE BROWN
No need to be an ass. First off, no one got rich off the program. They only spent $20 million over the 20 years that it existed and most were paid their normal wage as a soldier (afew were contractors at SRI, but also didnt get paid well).
And I fully admit there is a lot of junk science out there, which makes this kind of research all the more difficult for people with good intentions. I have also interviewed prominent skeptics, and frankly, they often don't have good arguments and haven't looked at the data either.
I can get back to you with more journal articles once I find out where they are located, but here is one study I have easily on hand for now. This experiment I know something about because I conducted it. We did it at the University of Colorado in the Department of Engineering and it was published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal): http://psiphen.colorado.edu/Pubs/Smith14.pdf
The TLDR of it is that using a type of remote viewing we predicted the stock market DJIA correctly 7 out of 7 trials giving a p value of < .01. Granted this result barely surpasses statistical significance, but we were limited in the time to do more trials. It IS still a statistically significant result. Moreover, if you evaluate the individual RV sessions, 61(ish) of 73(ish) (from memory) predicted it correctly, which would be a p value of < .00006 or something like that (also from memory). The protocol is sort of complicated so you'll have to read the paper to understand it because I don't feel like typing it all out right now.
And here are some first hand sample sessions that my pops did during his training in the military program: http://rviewer.com/SG_Sessions.html
You could also read a number of books (sorry about links to Amazon):
Like this one from my father about his experience in the program and the history of it (he was the offical unit historian):
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Enemys-Mind-Americas-Espionage/dp/0312875150?ie=UTF8&amp;%2AVersion%2A=1&amp;%2Aentries%2A=0
Or this one from the original SRI scientists:
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Reach-Scientists-Psychic-Abilities-Consciousness/dp/1571744142?ie=UTF8&amp;%2AVersion%2A=1&amp;%2Aentries%2A=0
Or this one that was just released by a Pulitzer Prize finalist Journalist:
https://www.amazon.com/Phenomena-Governments-Investigations-Extrasensory-Psychokinesis/dp/0316349364?ie=UTF8&amp;%2AVersion%2A=1&amp;%2Aentries%2A=0
EDIT: corrected the p value to reflect the study
In Phenomena you have a complete history of the US Gov involvement with the weird.
https://www.amazon.com/Phenomena-Governments-Investigations-Extrasensory-Psychokinesis/dp/0316349364
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