Russell Targ

Russell Targ
Born (1934-04-11) April 11, 1934 (age 90)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
Known forRemote viewing
Spouses
  • (died 1998)
  • Patricia Kathleen Phillips
    (m. 2003)
Children3, including Elisabeth Targ
RelativesBobby Fischer (brother-in-law)
Websiteespresearch.com

Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist, and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.[1]

Targ joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972, where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "remote viewing" for the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using parapsychological means. Later, he worked with Puthoff on the US Defense Intelligence Agency's Stargate Project.

Targ's work on remote viewing has been characterized as pseudoscience[2][3] and has also been criticized for lack of rigor.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Russell Targ". Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Gale. Retrieved 2014-04-15 – via answers.com.
  2. ^ Hines, Terence (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus. pp. 133–6. ISBN 9781615920853.
  3. ^ Gardner, Martin (2001). Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 60–7. ISBN 978-0393322385.
  4. ^ Hines 2003, pp. 135-6.
  5. ^ Gilovich, Thomas (1993). How We Know What Isn't So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. Free Press. pp. 166–73. ISBN 9780029117064.

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