Research & investigation
Edwin May
SRI and SAIC remote-viewing research director
Also known as Ed May · Edwin C. May
Who they are
Edwin May directed research on remote viewing and anomalous cognition associated with SRI and SAIC. Jessica Utts’s 1995 assessment identifies him as the principal investigator supplying experimental information to the reviewers. His research is part of the disputed evidence reviewed by Utts and Ray Hyman, whose interpretations diverged.
He connects the laboratory program with the later debate over what its statistical results establish.
Selected contributions
- Provided experiment details and methodological information for the 1995 assessment of SAIC research.Source ↗
Selected reading about this person
Report · 1995
An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
Utts argues that the statistical results of SRI and SAIC experiments support anomalous cognition. This is her contribution to a review whose other assessor, Ray Hyman, disputed whether the evidence established the phenomenon.
The 1995 title page lists the University of California, Davis; this copy is hosted on Utts’s University of California, Irvine site.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication Fresh title/byline and abstract read; reuses documented prior inspection of introduction, research history and replication discussion. Not a fresh complete 33-page audit.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning ↗Jessica Utts / University of California, Irvine