Ray Hyman

Ray Hyman is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and a member of the executive council of the Center for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He was one of two experts hired by the CIA in 1995 to evaluate the remote—viewing program for the agency. In the following viewpoint, Hyman argues that although the ten remote viewing experiments the panel examined for the CIA's report had a "hit" rate that was higher than average, that is not proof that psychic ability was responsible for the success of the experiments. He asserts that ESP can be credited only when every other normal explanation has been ruled out. The experiments' success can only be acknowledged when independent laboratories have replicated the experiments and when science...