Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
J. B. Rhine's Duke parapsychology lab
At Duke University, J. B. Rhine turned 'ESP' into a laboratory subject with card-guessing experiments and statistics.
1934 CE · 36.00, -78.94 · status: disputed
The account
Rhine's 1934 book 'Extra-Sensory Perception' popularised the term and the Zener-card test. He founded the Journal of Parapsychology and set the experimental template that later Cold War psi research built on.
The sceptical view
Other laboratories failed to replicate his strong results, and critics found sensory leakage, loose controls and, in one later case (Walter Levy, 1974), outright fraud by a lab director.
Connections in the atlas
- "The Obligation to Disclose Fraud" (Skeptical Inquirer)
- J. B. Rhine
- Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years
- Extra-Sensory Perception