Talk:Early psi research at SRI

Bearian (talk) 22:08, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Initial note
This page relies solely upon publications in mainstream scientific journals. Please do not add material that is likely to result in problems with fringe sources or partisan data. Msbbb (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice Work
You have done some fine research. The only problem with this entry is it uses only articles in journals as references. Books written by Targ and Puthoff, statements they have made, and other individuals and other parapsychologists supply more information. These sources do not always agree with each other, or with what you have here. It is not that simple. I wish it was. Kazuba (talk) 05:47, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Repost of comment from article originator
(See User talk:Msbbb) My original vision for this entry was specifically to summarise RV from the point of view of mainstream science. The early SRI studies are the only ones (that I could locate), which were reported and debated in such journals. They would therefore form the mainstream, peer-reviewed corpus of primary scientific sources. (Unfortunately, parapsychology journals do not yet fall into this category.) Other reference sources would seem to fall outside these sources, such as mass-market publications (eg Schnabel) or insider tell-alls (eg Smith, Atwater, etc). By relying so much upon all this material, the main RV entry jumbles up the whole military-CIA-espionage-conspiratorial angle with an orderly discussion of the basic scientific investigation of RV.

Peer review request
I've added a rqst for peer rvw here to reflect the corresponding request concerning the main RV page, which was recently made here by User:Maxwellordinary. With luck, the review will include the aggregate set of material in both articles. jxm 08:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Marge??
Errrr, I believe the intention was to merge it into the remote viewing page, not the SRI page -- no?? jxm (talk) 23:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

For the record....
I've redirected this item from the main parapsy page to the SRI specific material. As noted above, the Early_psi page was accidentally merged into the main SRI page back in 2007, rather than into the remote viewing article where it probably belonged. All that text was subsequently - and correctly imo - deleted, and then vanished for a while, until it was recently reinstated as Parapsychology research at SRI. Hence the corrected redirect. jxm (talk) 02:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC)