Well, my job here as far as telepathy is concerned is pretty much done. All I ever wanted was to bring us to the conclusion that it cannot be disproven nor proven, instead of the couriered academic stance that a soul that even brings up telepathy is ill, or insane.
That's not even true. Telepathy was given plenty of chances in academia. In the 20th century, plenty of weird
true science was postulated and proven true, such as quantum mechanics. Plenty of weird
false things were tried and proven false, too. There was no prior bias towards the things that turned out to be true in the end. Nobody pre-decided on quantum mechanics being true, nor was in "expected" and therefore just accepted. e.g. radio waves - these completely fly in the face of pre-existing beliefs. Nobody expected them to be there, and people who postulated magical invisible waves that come from rocks were no more insane than people who brought up telepathy (magical invisible waves that come from brains).
Bringing up paraphysics isn't "wrong" or "insane" as an act, it's just been disproven time and time again through the process of
experimentation, so when another person ignorant of the previous science brings it up again, people go "here we go again" in a way we'd do exactly the same as if you reinvented Phlogiston Theory or the Plum Pudding model of the atom, or any of countless other theories which were perfectly sane to
hypothesize but have been outmoded by other theories.
Sure, the Plum Pudding model of the atom was perfectly reasonable in the late 19th century, but to bring it up
now would be pretty ridiculous, because you'd have to ignore a centuries worth of disproving evidence.
Likewise, hypothetical telepathy was perfectly reasonable to bring up at one point, but to focus on that now
requires one to ignore all the studies showing it doesn't work. Psychic abilities
always fail when tested in controlled conditions.
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