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Psychic Powers Vs. Science! The subject of psychic phenomena and failure in thepsychic realm. Imagine parapsychology arouses ahuge amount of repeating your experiment in a hauntedhouse controversy and doubt. This is not and DEMANDING that the sprite appear on cue, unreasonable just becauseyou are performing the same experiment! (and probably a good thing), given their extremely checkeredpast. Fake have abounded: If, by its very nature, a experience is false mediums, charlatan mind extremely rare andunpredictable in nature, it readers,conjuring tricks passed off as the is very hard to use Science to saymuch about real  thing.  The  list  goes  onforever. it  at  all. Hence, the use of Science should be welcomed Science has very little to say about rare and in helping to verifysome of the psychic unrepeatable events. Yet, these are the very community's  claims. things  that  life  itself  is  full  of. However, this can also become unhealthy for The Scientific Method has little or nothing several reasons, andit is equally important to say regarding rare or unrepeatable events. to stand guard against these flaws. Theytoo Nevertheless, these are the very things that are  all  too  common. life  itself  is  filled  with. (1)  Biased  scientists. It is for this very reason that, initially, the idea that ameteorite collision caused the The pitiful truth is that the field of extinction of the dinosaurswas met with hoots psychic investigation, with onlyvery rare of laughter by the scientific community. exceptions, fails to excite or attract the Itwas the very rarity of the event, and the veryscientific brains. Career-wise, the field fact that no evidencecould be found, that of psychic investigation isextremely badly caused ridicule to be heaped upon theheads of funded, is nearly impossible to make a the theory's proponents. Until, of course, solid,respected career in, and is the source the  craterwas  discovered. of endless derision frommainstream scientists and  diehard  skeptics. We now also know that the role of the experimenter candramatically change the Therefore, there is always gigantic pressure results of the experiment. This mayexplain uponpsychic researchers to justify their own why certain famed psychics seem to have their existence. At the end ofthe day, they have to skillsflee them in the cold harsh light of find something, somewhere! If, from startto the scientificlaboratory. Yet, only a finish, their careers consisted solely of mediocre investigator would claim thatbecause disproving everysingle psychic experience this is the case, it proves that there were that they were presented with, theywould no  psychicphenomena  to  begin  with! quickly give up the psychic investigation field fromsheer boredom or depression. After (3)  Psychic  Skeptics. all, from a purely personalstandpoint, why bother? Hence, most of them are This may, in part, explain the James Randi intrinsicallybelievers to start with. To put effect. This is apsychic investigator who is it bluntly, the probability ishigh that they a total skeptic on the subject, andwho possess  a  strong  in-built  bias  in place. approaches the subject with this powerful ingrained bias. Hehas issued a challenge to This is not to imply that they would fake pay a large sum of money to anyone whocan results. However, wemust be aware that, by demonstrate psychic powers to him in a their very existence in this much scientificallycontrolled environment. To malignedfield, there is an invisible pressure date,  he  still  has  his  money. upon these people toproduce something to validate their own existence. Hence, thissort Now, part of the problem may be that, even if of science is extremely difficult to maintain somebody isgenuinely psychic, the attitude of in  a  totallyobjective  manner. the investigator issufficiently negative to completely extinguish whatever Regular academic scientists are always under psychicabilities exist, as long as he is pressure to justifytheir funding through present. Again, a trueinvestigator of any their results. How much worse then professionalism cannot discount this forscientists who, for the most part, have no possibility. funding, and who areoften the laughing stock of  the  scientific  community? This is a purely human factor we are talking about, a function ofthe human brain, and not For all of these reasons, the profession of a measurement of the boiling point ofwater. psychic investigationcannot and will not Hence, it is entirely plausible that the attract the very finest minds, at least notat negativeattitude of the investigator, plus the present times. This is not intended to be the undue pressure that thepsychic is placed an snub toscientists involved in the field. under as a result of it, could act to It is just reality. The verybest will tend to diminishthe  very  effect  being  measured. gravitate towards "safe" fields where theirability will be recognized, and not However, the bias of people like Randi and derided  and  scoffed  at. the organization ofskeptics that calls itself Psicop, is worrying for anotherreason. These It is a pity, but that is just how the world are people who, while claiming to be works  at  present. scientists,are actually approaching the entire subject with a deepbias that has (2)  The  inadequacy  of  Science. nothing  to  do  with  Science  whatsoever. The scientific method has served the human They are skeptical, because they are race extremely well, but ithas its limits. It skeptical. That's all. Theyare believers in cannot  do  everything. "Disbelief". It's just the opposite end of thespectrum  of  Belief.  That's  all. Hence, we must be cautious of trying to apply scientific methodswhere they may not work There is no scientific reason for it well at all. Such is the manner in whatsoever. While theypretend to be whichscience has been elevated to a religion scientific, their approach is more akin to in our world, thisstatement might seem almost areligious dogma; that of treating Science absurd. like a religion. It isoften called "Scientism"  for  this  reason. Yet, there are clear occasions where science cannot measureanything. You cannot measure They might claim that there is no proof that the emotions of love or anger withscientific psychic phenomenaexist. Yet, it can be stated instruments. Yet, few would doubt that they with equal validity that there isno proof exist. that they do NOT. That is a totally equivalentstatement. As we have seen earlier, You cannot use instruments to provide a Science cannot PROVE anegative statement. It printout of what somebodyis thinking. Yet, can only talk about probabilities nobody would deny that they DO think, and andlikelihood. And, as we have discussed, theyvery  often  think  in  words. many psychic phenomenaare intrinsically rare or  fragile  in  their  very  essence. You cannot prove scientifically that there are NO toy airplanesin orbit around the Like any good zealot, these skeptics like planet Mars! It might sound absurd, butno Randi and Psicophave a hidden agenda in matter how much you search for them and fail "proving" that the world functions theway to  find  them,  you they think it does. Frankly, a major motivation is FEAR. Morepeople than would CANNOT PROVE that they are not there. You can like to admit it are terrified of only say that youhave not found one YET, and thepossibility of psychic phenomena. What if that it is extremely unlikely thatthey exist. someone really COULDread your mind? Every You might be able to say that with dirty little secret. What if YOU too 99.99999999%certainty. But you can NEVER say coulddevelop  psychic  powers? it  with  100%  certainty. Just imagine what sort of world THAT would Science  cannot  "prove"  a  negative. be! Thus, in the realm of psychic phenomena, Hardly the boringly predictable, science cannotcategorically state that there ultra-conservative, Newtonian is  no  such  thing.  You  CANNOT "scientific" universe that these people PROVE that ghosts do not exist, for instance. inhabit. For them, it's apossibility too You can only saythat, to date, there has been terrible  to  contemplate. no  conclusive  proof  that  they  DO. In conclusion , it's vital not to be too That is NOT the same as saying that they do credulous in examining apsychic experience, NOT. or  in  rushing  to  accept the claims of the In addition, the scientific method itself has "professional" investigators in this field. limitations thatpsychic phenomena would Nevertheless, wemust also be extremely definitely stretch. In science,something has cautious of the skeptics who, whilepretending to be repeatable for it to have any validity. to be scientific, are often better viewed Inother words, other scientists have to be asideological zealots than even mediocre able to replicate yourprocess and get exactly scientists. the  same  results. Copyright 2006 Asoka Selvarajah. All Rights However, this is almost certainly doomed to Reserved. 1 A B C 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85