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category: "Scientists & Researchers"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Parapsychology
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- Ganzfeld
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- SRI
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- RemoteViewing
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summary: "Parapsychologist at Maimonides Medical Center and director of the Psychophysical Research Laboratories, whose ganzfeld meta-analyses were subcontracted by SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program."
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relations:
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Maimonides Medical Center]]"
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fn: 1
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- type: contractor_to
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with: "[[Stanford Research Institute]]"
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role: "director, Psychophysical Research Laboratories; ganzfeld meta-analyses"
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fn: 2
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created: 2026-09-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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Charles Honorton worked at [[Maimonides Medical Center]] in [[Brooklyn]], where in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976 he and [[Edwin May]] had [[Ingo Swann]] attempt to influence a noise-driven random generator.[^1] He later directed the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL).[^2]
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### SRI Subcontract
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The report "Phenomenological Research and Analysis" of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] program under May recorded: "we subcontracted with Mr. Charles Honorton, the director of PRL, to improve an earlier meta-analysis of the literature pertaining to characteristics of persons who might perform well in AC tasks"; "we asked Mr. Honorton to conduct a meta-analysis of the Ganzfeld literature to determine if there were meaningful differences between Ganzfeld studies with and without a sender"; and, "Because the results of the meta-analysis proved to be inconclusive, PRL was tasked to design a protocol for a definitive Ganzfeld study to understand the role of the sender in such experiments." Honorton's reports formed appendices B and C.[^2]
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### The Ganzfeld Controversy
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Honorton and the psychologist [[Ray Hyman]] published "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy" in the *Journal of Parapsychology* in 1986. With [[John Palmer]] and [[Jessica Utts]], Honorton wrote the [[Parapsychological Association]]'s reply to the [[National Research Council]]'s 1988 report.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: May, Edwin C., and Charles Honorton. "A Dynamic PK Experiment with Ingo Swann," Maimonides Medical Center, abstract for the American Physical Society meeting of February 1976, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130005-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: SRI International, "Phenomenological Research and Analysis," CIA-RDP96-00787R000300230001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Palmer, John A., Charles Honorton and Jessica Utts. *Reply to the National Research Council Study on Parapsychology,* special report for the Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association, CIA-RDP96-00789R002200420001-1, citing Hyman, R., and C. Honorton, "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy," *Journal of Parapsychology* 50 (1986), pp. 351-364. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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