Analog Science Fiction And Fact - June 2014 - Plot & Excerpts
Lerner | 5621 words In 1995, two academic researchers were tasked with assessing twenty years of U.S. government and government-funded studies of "anomalous mental phenomena." (You have seen the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, right?) That awkward expression, "anomalous mental phenomena," stands in for abilities more commonly labeled as—take your pick— "psi," "paranormal," and "extrasensory." One of the researchers—Jessica Utts, a statistician then at University of California Davis—reported: Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted. Effects of similar magnitude to those found in government-sponsored research... have been replicated at a number of laboratories across the world. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud.
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