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Sure, but how do you find a project like that to enter at a useful stage? I feel like with the Panama Papers, any semi-public plea for help sorting through that
by adamson 8y ago
Sure, but how do you find a project like that to enter at a useful stage? I feel like with the Panama Papers, any semi-public plea for help sorting through that data would have thwarted the journalists
- ALittleLight 8y agoThe CIA discloses sets of documents from time to time as do other government agencies. The CIA recently (past few years) released a huge collection of PDFs regarding their investigation into psychic phenomenon. I only read a few documents at random of these (bizarrely the CIA seemed or seems to have some success with psychics) but I'd be interested if someone could synthesize them into something meaningful or explain exactly what the CIA was doing, to what extent they believe in psychics, and what evidence they really have. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/stargate https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/stargate
- rurban 8y agoIn short, the Russians had a project to transmit psychic messages on submarines. This was of vital military importance if it would have worked. So the US tried that also, and then they also tried to use LSD (for interrogation, and other drugs) and subconscious hallucinogenic orders (for agents). This worked better, but of course was also shut down (MKULTRA). They still rely on the equally unscientific lie detector tests, which works even worse than Scientology methods. But very similar.
- matt4077 8y agoData.gov, the public datasets on BigQuery, thebInterhet Archive, etc. The Twitter API is also relatively open, so is Flickr. There’s a lot of data to play around with, even if not all is as scandalous as the Panama Papers (but who knows...)