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In reply to ukit2:
"They don't assume a single explanation for this...some think it's because there's an unknown type of matter and energy that we are not currently able to detect."
and how is this scenario any different to the one explaining the phenomena measured by the ESP experiments? 'Something' is making the results of these experiments deviate from chance or expectation. What that 'something' is, is up for debate, like Dark Matter.
---------------"With these tests you are talking about on the other hand, they are looking at statistical anomalies, like someone guessing a number more than the statistical average, and assuming a completely unjustified explanation, that people have psychic powers."
The experiments are designed specifically to detect the influence of the mind on material objects at a distance. Why then is the conclusion unjustified? It's not. These aren't a band of hippies in a yurt in California taking psychodelics and chanting 'ohm'. These are intelligent academics with labs who understand scientific method and all the pitfalls and hurdles associated with this type of experiment. I've heard a debate between Radins team and a number of skeptics who questioned them about their Scientific Method, Experiment Design and Control Management and they couldn't fault them. So the claim that there are 'known flaws with this kind of experiment' is so generic and inaccurate it's less than worthless.
---------------"No one has ever explained why we should think that people have psychic powers, other than it being a long-standing religious/mystical belief. It's no more plausible an explanation than saying that JEsus came down from heaven and implanted the thoughts in their brain."
Really? You're seriously suggesting that paranormal phenomena were invented as a way of supporting/explaining/experienci... religious and mystical belief. Could you explain a little more?