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born: 1936-01-09
category: Skeptics & Critics
died: 2022-03-10
location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
summary: He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments
  and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much
  more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish
  the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to
tags:
- Person
- Skeptic
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[Robert Lucky](/people/robert-lucky/) was a [Bell Labs](/organizations/bell-labs/) scientist and the editor of the prestigious *Proceedings of the IEEE* electrical engineering society journal. He initially hesitated to publish [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) and [Russell Targ](/people/russell-targ/)'s paper on remote viewing in 1976. However, after Puthoff and Targ visited Bell Labs to answer questions from skeptical scientists, Lucky was impressed.[^1]

He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, "Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser." His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to the growing, albeit controversial, recognition of remote viewing within the scientific community.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.