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Is Uri Geller fully fraudulent?
The fraud-versus-genuine dichotomy misses the documented record: Geller passed controlled trials at Stanford Research Institute rigorous enough to be published in Nature, was contracted by intelligence agencies, and was studied by credentialed physicists who could not explain his results in real time. The experimental protocols were flawed — no trained conjuror in the room, sensory leakage opportunities — but that cuts both ways: it neither confirms powers nor clinches fraud. The CIA and DIA files, now partly declassified, show institutional investment that goes far beyond entertainment debunking.
Evidence
- In 1972–73, physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff ran a series of experiments on Geller at Stanford Research Institute.
- What that framing omits: Hal Puthoff's program fed directly into the CIA's Stargate remote-viewing program, documented in the declassified FOIA releases of the mid-1990s.
- Parapsychologist Dean Radin at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has pointed to the SRI Geller files as part of a broader pattern: effect sizes that survive replication in meta-analysis but collapse under hostile protocol tightening — which itself, Radin argues, can introduce demand characteristics.
- Israeli intelligence connections, referenced by researchers including Michael Salla and Gordon Novel's circle, suggest Geller's operational uses went beyond entertainment.
- Their paper, published in Nature, reported statistically significant results in remote viewing and metal influence tasks.