Editing Remote viewing (section)

{{Short description|Pseudoscientific concept}}
{{Distinguish|Remote sensing|Remote desktop software}}

{{Infobox
| title   = Remote viewing
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| caption = 
| label1  = Claims
| data1   = The alleged paranormal ability to perceive a remote or hidden subject without support of the [[sense]]s.<ref name="Blom">Blom, Jan. (2009). ''A Dictionary of Hallucinations''. Springer. p. 451. {{ISBN|978-1441912220}}</ref>
| label2  = Related scientific disciplines
| data2   = 
| label3  = Year proposed
| data3   = 1970
| label4  = Original proponents
| data4   = [[Russell Targ]] and [[Harold E. Puthoff|Harold Puthoff]]
| label5  = Subsequent proponents
| data5   = [[Ingo Swann]], [[Joseph McMoneagle]], [[Courtney Brown (researcher)|Courtney Brown]]
| label6  = Notable proponents
| data6   = 
}}

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'''Remote viewing''' ('''RV''') is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind.<ref name="Blom"/> There is no scientific evidence that remote viewing exists, and the topic of remote viewing is generally regarded as [[pseudoscience]].<ref name="Alcock 1981">[[James Alcock|Alcock, James]]. (1981). ''Parapsychology-Science Or Magic?: A Psychological Perspective''. Pergamon Press. pp. 164–179. {{ISBN|978-0080257730}}</ref><ref name="Gilovich 19932">[[Thomas Gilovich|Gilovich, Thomas]] (1993). ''How We Know What Isn't So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life''. Free Press. pp. 166–173. {{ISBN|978-0029117064}}</ref><ref name="Marks 2000">[[David Marks (psychologist)|Marks, David]]; Kammann, Richard. (2000). ''[[The Psychology of the Psychic]]''. Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1573927988}}</ref><ref name="wiseman_one2">{{cite journal |last1=Wiseman |first1=R |last2=Milton |first2=J |year=1999 |title=Experiment One of the SAIC Remote Viewing Program: A critical reevaluation |url=http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/SAICcrit.pdf |journal=[[Journal of Parapsychology]] |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=297–308 |access-date=2008-06-26}}* Obtained from  [http://www.richardwiseman.com/research/papers.html listing of research papers on Wiseman's website]</ref><ref name="Gardner20002">{{cite book |last=Gardner |first=Martin |title=Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience |publisher=W.W. Norton |year=2000 |isbn=978-0393322385 |location=New York |pages=60–67 |author-link=Martin Gardner}}</ref><ref name="Paranormal. Prometheus Books p. 1362">{{cite book |last=Hines |first=Terence |title=Pseudoscience and the Paranormal |date=2003 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=1573929794 |page=136 |author-link=Terence Hines}}</ref> A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Zusne, Leonard |title=Anomalistic psychology: a study of magical thinking |author2=Jones, Warren |publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |year=1989 |isbn=0805805087 |pages=167}}</ref> Physicists [[Russell Targ]] and [[Harold Puthoff]], [[parapsychology]] researchers at [[SRI International|Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI), are generally credited with coining the term "remote viewing" to distinguish it from the closely related concept of [[clairvoyance]].<ref name="Frazier">Kendrick Frazier. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=i2Nm8OyXpyQC&pg=PA94 Science Confronts the Paranormal]''. Prometheus Books, Publishers; {{ISBN|978-1615926190}}. pp. 94–.</ref><ref name="jordan">{{citation |title= Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case|author=Joe Nickell|author-link=Joe Nickell|date=March 2001|work=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|url=http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/remotely_viewed_the_charlie_jordan_case/}}</ref> According to Targ, the term was first suggested by [[Ingo Swann]] in December 1971 during an experiment at the [[American Society for Psychical Research]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite book |last=Targ |first=Russell |date=2012 |title=The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities |publisher=Quest Books |pages=4, 14, 23 |isbn=978-0835608848 }}</ref>

Remote viewing experiments have historically lacked proper controls and repeatability. 

The idea of remote viewing received renewed attention in the 1990s upon the [[declassification]] of documents related to the [[Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit)|Stargate Project]], a $20 million research program sponsored by the [[U.S. government]] that attempted to determine potential military applications of psychic phenomena. The program ran from 1975 to 1995 and ended after evaluators concluded that remote viewers consistently failed to produce actionable intelligence information.