We just received a note from Andrew Usher, who said the Telegraph misquoted and misrepresented his work on medical remote viewing, the idea that so-called “psychic powers” can be used to detect illnesses that conventional medical procedures miss. (Field Notes, August 31, 2009).
Here’s his statement:

Despite repeatedly informing the journalist for the Telegraph that med rv is a privately funded project … and that it has no connections to the NHS they have written:

“The NHS is involved in an ongoing trial to establish whether RV has social and medical applications.”

To clarify once again, UK-RV is not involved with the NHS and all projects are funded and sourced privately.
The NHS is not involved in Remote Viewing to my knowledge.

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PBS will air three religion-themed documentaries in 2010. God in America, scheduled for the fall, is a six-hour series examining the role of religion in America from the time of Columbus to the 2008 election. The Buddha, scheduled for the spring, tells the story of the Indian sage who founded Buddhism. And The Calling, an as-yet unscheduled four-hour series, follows eight individuals preparing to the join the clergy in one of four different religions—Islam, Catholicism, evangelical Christianity, or Judaism.
As PBS chief TV programming executive John Wilson notes:

For many Americans, exploring religion and faith is one of life’s biggest and most central questions, and PBS offers some of the most compelling, wide-ranging programming on this subject anywhere on television. In 2010, viewers will be able to enhance their understanding from three different documentary perspectives providing a truly multi-dimensional experience that will also continue online with materials and video.