[ExI] Psi in a major science journal

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/22/2010 4:46 AM, Ben Zaiboc wrote:

> It occurs to me, though, that if any govt. anywhere
> was successfully employing paranormal abilities with
> any degree of success, they would be having uncanny
> success in military operations, etc.

This applies equally to any successful spying operation conducted by 
advanced traditional means, monitoring cell phone traffic etc.  Does 
this mean no such intelligence operations ever happen, or just that they 
never lead to uncanny success?

Looking on results from the outside, how would you disentangle successes 
due to "normal" means from any due to "paranormal" means?

It's possible that the various declassified successes of Star Gate were 
actually due to conventional spying by local agents or to advanced 
satellite surveillance, etc, and that the military carefully leaked 
rumors that psi dunnit to muddy the waters and confuse the foe. It's 
known that at least some highly secret military plane and rocket flights 
were masked by fake UFO reports, which allowed sensible journalists and 
others to guffaw and turn their minds to other topics. It could be that 
way with military "psi programs". But that doesn't explain all the 
anomalies like Bem's experiments or my own with Lotto (unless we are all 
part of the Evil Government Conspiracy to Cloud Your Minds).

Damien Broderick