02-09-2014, 10:56 PM
(02-09-2014, 10:34 PM)Folk-love Wrote: Why is that ESP and other phenomena have yet to be proven? If these things exist (which I believe they do) how come it has been so hard to provide proof of their existence? These phenomana seem to occur rather frequently, yet all the tests done on them have yet to conclusively provide evidence for them. Anyone know why?Because anecdotal evidence is typically what is provided in lieu of scientific evidence. No one has been able to consistently demonstrate a significant ESP effect when asked to do so under controlled conditions. This is out of billions of people. So the demonstrations have not been reliable, which is a requirement for study of course. There has been no rigorous hypothesis offered which adequately explains the underlying mechanism. All tests to date have been unable to rule out cherry picking of data - that's a failure of both the experimenter's testing methods and the experimenter's understanding of the purported phenomenon.
You can believe and experience all you want, but that alone won't do crap to advance practical knowledge in the matter - which is the purpose of scientific inquiry.