What Edwin C. May has said about Remote viewing

8 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 2, 2026

Edwin C. May, American physicist and former director of the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing research program, has been quoted on Remote viewing 8 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on October 2, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

May argues that remote viewing, like other natural abilities, cannot be trained.
“You cannot train a natural ability. And that's in track and field. You can't train anything, including ESP”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 32:23
May criticizes the followers of Ingo Swann's structured training method as a cult that persists today.
“It spawned a Ingo Swann cult. And the Ingo Swann cult still exists today and it drives up those of us nuts”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 25:30
May estimates that up to 10% of the population may be able to remote view under double-blind laboratory conditions.
“if that's wrong by a factor of 10, that's still 10% of the population have the ability to muster under laboratory double bond conditions”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 27:50
May says that Joe McMoneagle scored 44% accuracy over 1,500 trials, where chance alone would give 20%.
“there's a 20% chance he'd get it by luck alone. But he was scoring 44% accuracy of his data”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 41:49
May explains that ESP's low bit rate would make winning the lottery require roughly 50 straight hours of psychic effort.
“It would take 50 straight hours of being psychic to win the lottery to get enough information with this terrible bit rate”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 47:55
May argues that repeating Angela Ford's study with the same team was not a valid replication, and says the repeat failed.
“Us doing the same thing is not an independent replication”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 51:48
May says that he prefers skeptics to believers because he learns more from them.
“I much prefer skeptics than I do believers. Believers buy ink nonsense. And I've learned more from skeptics than from believers”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 57:48
May says that everyone uses some degree of remote viewing in daily life, which is consistent with Lisa Kudrow's reported experience.
“We all use remote viewing, whether you've even heard of it. There's a natural ability for some people have something”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 55:00

Episodes

CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 2, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Physicist Edwin C. May tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing program, precognition research, and his materialist worldview.

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