Papers Reveal Pentagon Funding of Boeing’s Psychic Research
Papers Reveal Pentagon Funding of Boeing’s Psychic Research: “ESP, meditation, parapsychology … nothing’s too paranormal for a military contract.
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Boeing researchers don’t just spend their days designing killer drones and networked tanks. They also investigate unexplained powers of the mind, sometimes. Especially if those times are the late ’60s.
This study, New Correlation Between a
Human Subject and a Quantum Mechanical Random Number Generator, conducted in 1967, “tentatively conclude[s]” that people can basically will particular numbers to appear.
According to the Boeing-ites, there “exists a weak but significant
correlation” between the experiment’s “statistical processes” (that would be the generation of random numbers, “connected to four lamps and four corresponding pushbuttons”) and “the experimenter who initiates the processes” (”the human subjects, asked to press the buttons… with the objective in mind of obtaining a high number of coincidences”).
There’s no mention of follow-up studies. But this Boeing experiment is one of a number of fringe and alternative science projects we found after a quick dig through the online archives of the Defense Technical Information Center. You’ll get a kick out of the others. So keep reading…
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