The GANZFELD experiment, developed by the late Charles Honorton, has been improved by the Koestler Unit in Edinburgh... Results of 36% compare with 25% expected by chance. (GUEST, 07:41 AM has copied this from the International Survivalist Society website)

That's a typical example how research becomes folklore in interested circles. Read here a 1999 abstract about the research on ganzfeld experiments from a research assistent of the Koestler Unit. It starts:
A group of recent, well-controlled ganzfeld studies failed to replicate the positive findings of earlier work (Milton & Wiseman, 1999a). This presents a challenge to claims that a ganzfeld psi effect can be replicated across experimenters under methodologically stringent conditions.

Similar points can easily be made for the other points. The actual data and procedures by which they are gathered are much less convincing and clear-cut than parapsychology researchers would wish.

Amos, I have cited Randi for the effect, but the actual case for the incompetence of Targ and Puthoff has been made by serious researchers (Marks, Kammann and some others). While I have only read small parts of Swann's description I have read all I could get about the Geller experiments in the SRI. That has convinced me that I don't trust these two (Targ and Puthoff) to perform a well controlled experiment in that field.

Wolfgang