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Part IIT 29 fascinating, source and channeler rise to cult or celebrity status, which adds to the authority factor that overrides critical thinking. Weakness of Audience: Since rationalists perceive chaneling as a dubious means of investigation, it appeals more to people who pride themselves on being open minded and not fettered by the limitations of cold intellect. Yet there is a fine line between open mindedness and gullibility, and those who would replace rather than complement reason with intuition leave themselves vulner- able to logical sleights of hand, emotional manipulation, wishful thinking, and other forms of subjectivity. Channeled disinforma- tion would play upon these weaknesses. Summary: Remote viewing uses rigid protocols to psychically gather information about a target with minimal subjective bias. Several remote viewers may tune into the same target and receive similar i impressions, which are then analyzed afterward to con- ca - otra wee struct an accurate assessment of the target. The U.S. military is publicly known to have explored remote viewing as an intelli- gence gathering method. More recently, various researchers have used remote viewing to probe the nature of the alien presence. Strength of Source: As in the case of channeling, alien and ad- vanced human disinformers can transmit information remotely a 1 : 1 eed aon : : through natural or artificial telepathy. Remote viewers, even en- tire teams, are thus open to having their psychic line spliced by such disinformers and fed misleading impressions. Weakness of Vector: The greatest weakness is assuming that remote viewing success is measured by its signal to noise ratio, which ignores the possibility of a strong but counterfeit signal. Even with subjectivity eliminated, what remains is no guarantee of being truthful. Strength of Vector: Remote viewing has a reputation for being rigid, objective, and even scientific. Some of its practitioners have worked for the military, others have respectable academic back- Remote Viewer