“I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven, but begs the question: do we need higher standards of evidence when we study the paranormal? I think we do. (…) if I said that a UFO had just landed, you’d probably want a lot more evidence. Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionize [sic] the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don’t have that evidence.” Richard Wiseman Daily Mail, January 28, 2008

So he conveniently holds the paranormal in general to “higher scientific standards”. He admits by current standards something as wild as remote viewing is “proven”, but then dismisses it because it’s just too big a shocker in his view of the world paradigm. Yet for many of us, this is not such a shocker nor will it revolutionize the world for those of us who have known for some time this is a real science. He assumes all paranormal is illusion, and that is about as unscientific as it gets!

It’s this quote which always makes me think less of Wiseman to be honest. Ultimately he simply doesn’t want to admit what many govt. agencies know – Remote Viewing and likely some UFO tales are actually LEGIT.