Submission + - "Remote Viewing" by the Ministry of Defenc
An anonymous reader writes: The Ministry of Defense, according to an article on The Scotsman, funded a secret study to ascertain whether people with psychic powers could help protect the nation. The tests used volunteers to discover whether they were able to use psychic powers to "remotely view" hidden objects.
From the article:
"Surprisingly 28 per cent of those tested managed a close guess at the contents of the envelopes, which included pictures of a knife, Mother Teresa and an "Asian individual".
But most subjects, who were holed up in a secret location for the study, were hopelessly off the mark in their guesses. One even fell asleep while he tried to focus on the envelope's content.
A former Ministry of Defence employee who received a copy of the report has claimed that the timing of the study suggests security services wanted to "remotely view" hidden weapons caches in Iraq and find Osama bin Laden."