---
alias:
- Douglas B. Tang
category: Scientists & Researchers
created: 2026-09-22
location: Washington, D.C.
summary: Chief of biostatistics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who
  sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational
  remote viewing.
tags:
- Person
- DouglasTang
- GrillFlame
- RemoteViewing
- WalterReed
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Douglas B. Tang, chief of the department of biostatistics and mathematics in the division of biometrics at the [Walter Reed Army Institute of Research](/organizations/walter-reed-army-institute-of-research/), served on the [Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee](/events/grill-flame-scientific-evaluation-committee/) under [Manfred Gale](/people/manfred-gale/) in 1979. With [Jesse Orlansky](/people/jesse-orlansky/) and [Harry Holloway](/people/harry-holloway/) he signed the minority opinion: "Full evaluation of operational tests of 'Remote Viewing' would require valid ground truth data, reliable scoring procedures, preliminary trials to establish adequate experimental procedures and whatever lead times are needed to conduct adequate tests," and "a minority of the Committee believes that a test program in an operation-like environment is not likely to provide useful or reliable data."[^1]

[^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The annex is unsigned.