Newsflash: there's life on Mars, at least if you're willing to take a group of psychics' word at face value.
However, there's more to the story. Besides the fact that Mars is inhabited, there is also some booming industry going on, too.
Really?
For Courtney Brown, founder of the psychic-based Farsight Institute, the answer is a clear-cut yes because, according to him, his psychics are using remote viewing in a very scientific manner.
Oxymoron, anyone?
Well, remote viewing does have a bit of an interesting history. The whole concept is this: it is possible for people (either natural psychics or those considered trainable) to gather information about a place without ever going there, but by just thinking about it instead. Often, remote viewers will be guided with a name and/or picture of the person/place selected as the target. As with many forms of the paranormal, remote viewing has undergone some scientific investigation. However, the results were inconclusive at best. However, interest in remote viewing was reignited in the mid 1990s when it was revealed that the CIA had spent about $25 million of our money each year to investigate remote viewing's possibility as a tool for espionage.
Okay, back to hard science.
As far as remote viewing on Mars is concerned, this is about as unscientific an investigation as could be as there is no evidence to support the claim. In that same vein, I could say that aliens land in my backyard every other Monday. As further “proof,” I could get a friend to claim that he saw the aliens land, too. Similarly, Brown cites multiple remote viewings describing the same thing as his evidence. In the end, both claims are completely unverifiable. In science, you need physical, independently-produced evidence to warrant anything but skepticism. In the case of life on Mars, a space probe would need to be sent there. Aliens in my backyard? How about a photographic negative of the flying saucer in my backyard.
Either way, in science, you need evidence to support your claim. The remote viewers? No evidence produced, skepticism justified, end of story.
The full story:
Space.com
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