[2] After Vasiliev's main experiments were completed, his laboratory staff made an official statement declaring "We have not established whether telepathy exists.

[4] Vasiliev's book Experiments in Mental Suggestion was translated into English in 1963 and was popular with Western parapsychologists.

The chief weakness lies in the lack of precautions against errors in recording and against the experimenter being affected by what he knows about the experiment.

"[6] Such criticism was echoed by the parapsychologist Stephen E. Braude, who stated that on the whole, "Vasiliev's experiments are not described in the kind of detail one would expect from a thoroughly scientific publication.

Moreover, the long distance experiments are clearly preliminary in nature and invite various refinements in design, some of which were already planned when Vasiliev wrote his book.