David Morehouse?

[Porter]

I recently listened to the Skeptoid episode on remote viewers and it reminded me of a question...
What is the story on remote viewer, David Morehouse's alleged nomination for a 1999 Nobel Peace Prize supposed? A website ( knowledgeworksglobal.com/speakers/biographies/bio_davidmorehouse.html ) claims
"he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Alternative Sciences by a committee of scientists and educators from the United States and Scandinavia."

There's no "Alternative Sciences" category on the Nobel Foundation official website, so did he just get a bunch of fans and alternate science notables to nominate him for something that doesn't exist?

[Theophage]

There's no "Alternative Sciences" category on the Nobel Foundation official website, so did he just get a bunch of fans and alternate science notables to nominate him for something that doesn't exist?

Seems to me an award in a non-existent category is perfect for a non-existent effect.

[paximperium]

David Morehouse, the psychic remote viewer? He's claiming to have been "nominated" of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.


Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sends out thousands of letters inviting qualified people to submit their nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

Isn't that convenient?

[paximperium]

Well...here's a biography of him by people who actually believe in Remote Viewing and it isn't flattering. http://www.remoteviewer.org/remoteviewing/truth-about-david-morehouse.htm

[Mojo]

David Morehouse, the psychic remote viewer? He's claiming to have been "nominated" of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

Isn't that convenient?


Presumably he remote viewed his nomination.

[Wildtime]

David Morehouse on Skepticism (from the "David Morehouse Productions" website):
A note on skeptics at this point, because I feel it is critical that the reader have a clear understanding of who is debunking this work and exactly what their ‘scientific' background is or isn't and what motivates their skepticism. I have been interviewed several hundred times on radio and probably fifty times on television all over the world. In about twenty percent of those interviews and appearances I've had the distinct pleasure of having a counter position representative from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, (CSICOPs) or some other ‘skeptical' committee. I agree with Dr. Raymond Moody's description of these men, as he likens them to the hecklers of nightclub comedians−that is to say, what they really crave is not excellence in science, but more attention for themselves.

Most self-proclaimed skeptics are not skeptics at all. They are ideologists who think they have the answers. The ideology they espouse is known as scientism, the belief that the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences are the only ones appropriate for the pursuit of knowledge. Scientism is an open value judgment that other disciplines conform their techniques of investigation to those of the physical and biological sciences. These ‘skeptics' are in fact not interested in science; rather, they are fueling some sort of social movement against the possibility and promise of humanity. Knowing what they espouse, consider this fact: that if it Remote Viewing cannot be explained by science (their science), then it cannot exist at all, it must be a hoax or at best wishful thinking, certainly a waste of taxpayers money. These skeptics openly use electricity when there is not a physicist on the planet who can explain in anything but theoretical terms how electricity travels along a copper wire. The scientists at SRI could not tell you how Remote Viewing works, not really, they can theorize and that has been the only ‘ah ha,' for skeptics−the same people who accept the unexplained movement of electricity because it conveniences them. I would be a lot more impressed if they lived like Ted Kazinski and then argued what cannot be explained in the realm of scientism. Thank God for the real scientists at SRI.

[tyr_13]

Wow, just wow. Even if you don't look at remote viewing in scientific ways, the simple, pragmatic question of, "does it work," makes it fall on it's face.

And that's just one from this nincompoop.

[Porter]

David Morehouse on Skepticism (from the "David Morehouse Productions" website):

To Wildtime: The original question I presented in this thread was in regard to the claim that David Morehouse is/was a "Nobel Prize nominee" in what appears to be a category that does not exist, not on the supposed the efficacy of remote viewing. Can you enlighten us on this question?

[Wildtime]

To Wildtime: The original question I presented in this thread was in regard to the claim that David Morehouse is/was a "Nobel Prize nominee" in what appears to be a category that does not exist, not on the supposed the efficacy of remote viewing. Can you enlighten us on this question?

Sorry, got sidetracked while digging through David Morehouse's own website to find any references to his alleged Nobel Prize. From the "About Us" page in his own website:
Dr. Morehouse has twice lectured at the Mikhail Gorbachev Foundation’s State of the World Forum on issues concerning global peace and alternative methods of conflict resolution. In 1999, a committee of scientists and educators from the United States and Europe nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in the category of “Alternative Sciences.” More recently he has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University's MBA Creativity in Business course, and at Deepak Chopra's Alliance for a New Humanity in Puerto Rico.
Strangely, there is no other reference to this nomination in the rest of the website.