Maimonides random-generator PK tests with Ingo Swann
Edwin May and Charles Honorton reported that Ingo Swann biased an electronic random generator, even from behind steel walls.
1975 CE · 40.64, -74.00 · status: disputed
The account
At Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, Swann made 29 runs of 1,000 trials on a noise-driven binary generator; the average score of 493 against a chance 500 was reported as significant (p = .011), and the last 10 runs, made from a shielded room 12 feet away, were significant on their own (p.2-4). A control series an hour later was at chance. A companion study with ten subjects reported significant high-versus-low aiming and a decline across each session (p.5-9). Both were submitted as abstracts to the American Physical Society meeting of February 1976. May later became a leading scientist of the government programme.
The sceptical view
These are small, single-laboratory results reported by the experimenters; a deviation below chance was counted as an effect, and no independent replication is included.