Is there proof of psychic phenomena?

Question

Has anything like telepathy,psycho/pyrokinesis,remote viewing or the like ever been tested in a lab? What were the results. Serious answers only, please. If you don't know, don't answer.
Thanks!

GeishaSaiyuri: I'm pretty sure Sylvia Browne has been proven a fraud:
http://moonagewebdream.blogs.com/moonage_webdream/2006/01/bad_psychic_day.html

Answer 1

Yes, these things have been widely scientifically tested.

Over a period of more than 20 years, the CIA and Pentagon spent approximately $20 million to study and employ numerous "psychics." They were supposed to help track down terrorists, find hostages, help anti-drug activities, etc. Experiments were conducted on precognition, clairvoyance, and remote viewing.

The "psychics" were accurate about 15% of the time when they were helping the CIA. Fifteeen percent? Is this supposed to convince us to pay them to help the United States government? Utts says she thinks "they would be effective if used in conjunction with other intelligence." My intelligence tells me that 15% accuracy isn't much help no matter what it's used in conjunction with--that's an 85% failure rate! So 85% of the time, spies would be wasting their time and resources on incorrect information. We're supposed to be happy with that? And that's presuming she's right about the 15%.

The results have always been the same: psychic phenomena achieve the same results as random guesses.

What that means is that they don't exist. People who call themselves psychics are either deluded and simply guessing, or more often they are charlatans like John Edward who try to take people's money by pretending to be psychic,

Answer 2

I don't know the names of any of the studies, but there have been a few that claim to have positive results, the problem is that absolutely NONE of them have been repeatable or reliable... remote viewing was studied intensely by the US government, and the program was subsequently 'dropped' while a number of the participants have returned to sue the govt for psychological damage supposively from 'positive' results of the testing... of course all of the suits failed... I believe in psychic phenomenon, but there has never been a conclusive positive research study ever published on the matter...

Psychics like Sylvia Brown and other TV personalities continuously fail lab tests and claim that the lab environment somehow interferes with their psychic ability, that they can't just do it whenever they want and things need to come naturally to them. I remember reading a national geographic article on the matter, I wish I could remember which psychics were involved in the study... There was 3 of them, all had made several TV appearance and all of them failed at least 70% of the test criteria... now I also saw a blind study done on a psychic parrot, who could identify pictures that his owner looked at 4 rooms away, he had an 80% accuracy ;-) but that show was on animal planet so who knows how scientific it really was...

Answer 3

There was this documentary done on Dicovery channel about 8 years ago where they actually lab tested psychics like James Van Pragh, and John Edwards, as well as others. It did show that they were ,for the most part, beyond just mere coincidences. My daughter attends Berkley and says they have conducted several different studies.

Answer 4

there are "crime physics" who would have a series of "hallusionations" which would come true later, although not 100% accurate, they were up there in the 70 to 80 range

Answer 5

two words- Sylvia Browne

Answer 6

No, its a bunch of bull.

Answer 7

I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE,BUT THERE ARE MANY DOCUMENTED CASES THAT ARE QUITE CONVINCING.

Answer 8

Nope, none.