Tang Yu ‘ear-reading’
🎓 Academic research
‘Sichuan Daily’ 1979-03-11 · Sichuan Medical College 25 tests · Shanghai ‘Ziran Zazhi’ 1980 cover · China, Dazu Sichuan · 1979–1980
A 12-year-old boy was reported to read notes with his ear, sparking a national ‘psi craze’; Sichuan Medical College’s 8-day, 25-test study caught him peeking and concluded negative, while Peking Univ’s Chen Shouliang claimed training gave 80% of children ‘finger-reading’.
VerdictFailed under strict anti-peeking conditions; 1982 ‘three-no’ policy.
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Natasha Demkina the ‘X-ray-eyes girl’ test
🎓 Academic research
CSICOP / CSMMH · designed by Hyman, Wiseman, Skolnick · USA, City College of New York · 2004
7 volunteers (6 with conditions, 1 healthy); she had to correctly identify at least 5 and got 4.
VerdictFailed to meet the pre-set bar.
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Li Sizeng ‘finger-reading’ experiments
🎓 Academic research
National Taiwan Univ EE professor (later president) · Taiwan NSC funding · Taiwan, China · 1993–2010s
Claimed that after 4 days’ training, 21 of 138 children could ‘see’ characters on folded paper with a finger; in the 1999 ‘Buddha’ experiment children reported glowing figures, cited to propose an ‘information field’. Key subject Takahashi Mai was caught peeking live on Japan’s TBS in 1996 by James Randi.
VerdictNot accepted by mainstream physics and psychology.
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Rosa Kuleshova ‘skin vision’
🎓 Academic research
USSR Academy of Sciences studied ‘dermo-optical perception’ · USSR, Nizhny Tagil · 1962
Reportedly ‘read’ newspaper colours and text with her fingers, reported by ‘Pravda’ and studied by the Academy.
VerdictLater caught cheating.
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Kuda Bux blindfolded sight
📜 On record
Harry Price · Univ of London psychical-research committee test · UK, London · 1935
A Pakistani magician cycled and read blindfolded; magicians consider it technique.
VerdictA stage act.
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Röntgen discovers X-rays
🔬 Achieved by science
Univ of Würzburg · Germany · 1895
The first ‘see-through’ image was of his wife’s hand bones.
VerdictThe real way ‘X-ray vision’ is realised.
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