Puthoff is well known in the skeptical community for being fooled by Uri Geller into thinking Geller actually had psychic powers when Geller was just using conjuring tricks. But he's also very interested in the holy grails of alternative science: free (zero-point) energy, and reactionless propulsion.
So Puthoff's and Davis' work is, by its very nature, highly speculative. In his list of EarthTech publications, the first one is "Are Stars Conscious?" - but we don't see people shouting "The Pentagon thinks that stars are conscious!"
The military sometimes funds very speculative research projects, just in case, or perhaps just because someone overly-hopeful though something was worth studying. Eric Davis has been part of this for quite a long time. Some of the research is fairly reasonable - things like space elevators or laser-powered spacecraft. Some is borderline ridiculous, like his 2004 "Teleportation Physics Study," in which he bases his conclusion, in part, on Uri Geller's conjuring tricks.
I wouldn't hang my hat on someone that thinks Uri Geller is legit or that back in 2004 wrote a paper insisting that psychic teleportation was real and controllable.
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