Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Parapsychology: Science or Magic? > Status Update

The folklore of our culture, told to us when our rationality was still developing, has left an indelible mark on us all.

The school system ideally should teach children about the limitations of their own reasoning, and the propensity for magical thinking in all of us.

...even respectable publishing houses ask only two questions: "Will the book sell?" and "Will I get used?"

In astronomy and geology, one does not have replicability in the sense of being able to set up conditions so as to observe an effect. Yet, in both astronomy and geology, everything is publicly observable.

Unfortunately, psychologists and other social scientists often make many of the same basic errors - and that's before the journalist's get started 😆

The point to be learned to be learned from Newton's demonstration is the people's may be based in part on information that they have unconsciously "collected". - this is intuition, first language acquisition is exactly like this.

Dream telepathy - much more like my experience

One must also show the event does not also occur in [psi's] absence.

...the outcome is INDETERMINABLE although it is not INDETERMINATE

Whenever a large number of subhects and/or trials is used, very small effects can be statistically significant. - this is a result of the arithmetic of significance.