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the project's scientific review committee concluded that microwave radiation could not be used for mind control
Project Pandora's reviewers did not conclude microwaves 'could not be used for mind control'; they found the experiments had not shown behavioral effects and that evidence was insufficient to draw conclusions.
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This overstates what Project Pandora's reviewers actually found.
The available declassified records show a much narrower conclusion:
- A RAND review of Project Pandora experiments said the data "do not present any evidence of a behavioral change due to the presence of the special signal" within reasonable scientific criteria.
- A summary of a 1969 Pandora meeting said there was "at present insufficient evidence to draw conclusions" about the signal's impact on human behavior.
- A U.S. Senate committee report later summarized the review committee's finding as "no observable behavioral effects".
Those statements mean the experiments had not demonstrated the claimed effects under the conditions tested. They do not amount to a definitive conclusion that microwave radiation could not be used for mind control in general. The Wikipedia wording turns a negative or inconclusive experimental result into a much stronger categorical claim than the sources support.
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- RAND Corporation, Samuel Koslov, Report, "Review of Project Pandora Experiments"
In brief I am forced to conclude that the data do not present any evidence of a behavioral change due to the presence of the special signal within the limits of any reasonable scientific criteria.
- ARPA, Meeting Summary/Minutes, 'Summary of Pandora Meeting,' with attached 'Detailed Minutes of Pandora Meeting of April 21, 1969'
After almost four years of experiments on monkeys, the panel agrees that 'there is at present insufficient evidence to draw conclusions' about the potential impact of the Moscow Signal on human behavior.
- Microwave Irradiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation)
Review Committee concluded that there were no observable behavioral effects...