Ray Hyman

Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and a well known skeptic.

In 1972, Hyman evaluated Uri Geller at SRI. His unfavorable conclusions caused ARPA to drop its funding of SRI's project.

In my opinion, Hyman's evaluation was flawed. By all indications, Hyman tested Geller using his own protocals, not that of the team at SRI. Therefore, any conclusion that the controls were inadequate reflects on Hyman's protocals, not SRI's.
(see Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, Mind-Reach, Delacorte Press, 1977, pg 172-3)

Founding member of CSICOP (The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) and an executive editor of CSICOP's magazine, "Skeptical Inquirer". A former board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Hyman reportedly left after Jennifer Freyd, the daughter of FMSF's executive directors Peter and Pamela Freyd, accused her parents of molesting her as a child.
(Constantine, Alex, Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, Feral House, 1995, pg 66)

On the National Research Council's committee on Enhancing Human Performance. Hyman evaluated parapsychology for the NRC. Hyman later gave a negative evaluation of the program for the American Institutes for Research in 1995.

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