A PSYCHIC experiment conducted on Twitter has cast doubt on the reality of “remote viewing”.
More than 7,000 people took part in the study designed to test people’s ability to “see” distant locations.
During the 1970s, the CIA spent £12.5m looking into remote viewing with a view to conducting “psychic spying” missions against the Soviet Union.
But the “Twitter” experiment, led by psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, found no evidence that such an ability exists.
During the study, the first to be carried out via the instant messaging service, Prof Wiseman travelled to four target locations in the UK and asked participants to “Tweet” their thoughts and impressions about the spot he was visiting.
Prof Wiseman said: “On one trial, I was sitting under an unusual looking canopy but only 15% selected this option, 24% said I was in a graveyard. The same pattern emerged on all four trials.”
