Famous perpetrator of fraudulent experiments in Parapsychology. Following graduation from medical school, Fevy joined the staff of the Institute of Parapsychology headed by Joseph Banks Rhine in Durham, North Carolina. Fevy ran what appeared to be a successful series of experiments that seemed to indicate ESP in animals, especially mice and chicken embryos, from which he published a number of papers. In 1973 Rhine appointed him director of the institute.
Fevy’s very success suggested to some that he was falsifying data. Suspicions arose in 1974, when some of his colleagues at the institute noticed him hanging around the computer during an experiment. There was no need for him to be there, as all of the equipment was running automatically without the need of any human intervention. Suspicions seemed confirmed by the special significance of this particular experiment. The workers in the laboratory rigged the equipment to bypass the computer at the point where they suspected Fevy was manipulating the machine. If two different sets of data were produced, then he had manipulated one set. When two divergent sets of data appeared, it was hard evidence of his faking positive results. The results were presented to Rhine, who in turn presented them to Fevy. He admitted what he had done and was shortly thereafter fired from his position. He dropped out of the parapsychological community.