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originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
Just a link? Nothing to say?
I suppose it's expected on a conspiracy site like ATS that someone will try to inject something generally considered to be pseudoscience like parapsychology into a science thread, though some documentaries on the topic are entertaining.
Today, parapsychology is not taken seriously by most academics. The magician and skeptic James Randi has offered a million dollars to anyone who can demonstrate such abilities under controlled conditions; many have tried to claim the prize, but to date no one has succeeded.
And nobody ever will succeed.
I'm not quite as skeptical as that about parapsychology, but still pretty skeptical; the author makes some good points. Thinking about parapsychology can make us think about science and what science really is, as the article describes.