Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab - Closing of The Laboratory

Closing of The Laboratory

PEAR closed its doors at the end of February 2007 with its founder, Robert G. Jahn, concluding that after tens of millions of trials they had demonstrated that human intention has a slight effect on random-event machines. "For 28 years, we’ve done what we wanted to do, and there’s no reason to stay and generate more of the same data," Jahn said. Jahn felt that the work showed, on average, people can shift 2–3 events out of 10,000 from chance expectations.

These deviations from chance have failed to convince some mainstream scientists who feel that the effect is inconsistent and that relatively few negative studies would cancel it out.