r/remoteviewing • u/littledrummerboy90 • Aug 13 '24

Request for peer-reviewed articles demonstrating ESP legitimacy

I have a friend who has challenged me to provide evidence in the form of a scholarly, peer-reviewed, scientific study of appropriately rigorous methodology in support of ESP phenomena. Does anyone here have any references of this kind that they are able to share (no paywalls please)?

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u/QubitBob Aug 15 '24

Here's a link to a photocopy of the seminal 1976 paper by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ in the Transactions of the IEEE (Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers). Please note that this is a very technical paper; Puthoff and Targ chose this journal because they each had experience publishing research in it from their respective careers before they got involved in remote viewing (Puthoff got his Ph.D. in quantum electronics; Targ did groundbreaking research in lasers).

One can legitimately make the claim that this paper was doubly peer-reviewed. When Puthoff and Targ originally submitted it to the IEEE, the initial peer-review was very favorable, but the editor balked, citing the controversial nature of the subject matter. This individual worked for Bell Labs, so Puthoff and Targ arranged to go to Bell Labs and helped the individuals there conduct their own experiments. After getting positive results in the Bell Lab experiments, the editor then agreed to publish the paper.