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eee Psa area heed, . : a ; New Scientist 17 October 1974 (Coren ieare enna Grea ean t i " a oii Ho Cesd oud ord Gold ied See Qu ted Uo Is Uri Geller the world’s most gifted psychic, capable of bending metal without: touching it and discovering the contents of closed boxes with incredible accuracy ? Oris he the biggest hoaxer of our time, able to convince trained scientists that they saw things which never actually happened? This week, Mature publishes the first scientific paper on Geller—a report on tests at the Stanford Research Institute. And in this special issue of New Scientist, Dr Joseph Hanlon reports on both our own investigation and the SRI paper ue Gellerand New Scientist Uri Geller was first brought from Israel by a scientist— Dr Andrija Puharich—and has given demonstrations at the Bell Laboratories, New Jersey; the Goddard Space Flight Center, California; Birkbeck College, London; and other research centres. New Scientist first reported on Geller two years ago (vol 56, p 360) and more than a year ago (vol 59, p 95) reported on early results from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Geller first came to national attention in Britain on 23 Nevember 1973 when he appeared on the Dimbleby Talk-In on BBC tele- vision, where he reproduced a drawing in a sealed ’ envelope, bent a fork, and apparently started a dud watch. Two scientists, Professor John Taylor and Dr Lyall Watson, appeared on the programme with him. Geller stressed that he baffled the scientists—a point supported by both Taylor and Watson—and said he was anxious to participate in research with British scientists. Geller was a sensation on British television, generating far more interest than he had in appearances on national television in the US. And science was an important part of this—if Geller had simply appeared as a magician, he would have attracted much less attention. Yet Geller had indeed baffled the scientists,-and it was at least possible that he had powers previously unknown to science. : For this reason, New Scientist took the unusual step of | setting up its own small research panel and on 28 Novern- ber invited Geller to participate in experiments. (New Scientist, vol 60, p 603). We told Geller that the committee would consist of a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), a research psychologist, the editor and one other representative of New Scientist, an independent journalist with a major newspaper, and a professional magician. Geller accepted our invitation quickly, in a letter on & December. Although our initial letter to Geller did not actually name the members of the committee, they had already been chosen and were Denys Parsons of the SPR, psychologist Dr Christopher Evans of the National Physical Laboratory (who was tesponsible for the New ocientist parasvcholosy questionnaire, val 57, nm Dosh. th editor of New Scientist Dr Bernard Dixon (a biologist), Dr Joseph Hanlon (a physicist), international magician David Berglas, and Alan Brien of the Sunday Times. We later added a statistician, Professor D. J. Finney of the University of Edinburgh, and a forensic scientist, Dr : pline Grant ‘ Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-REH96-60787R000700410020-3, sinea high. By