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From: Anthony Potts <potts@cern.ch>
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On 11 Aug 1995, Brian Zeiler wrote:

> Well, it looks like we have yet another burning at the cross of 
> Scientific Fundamentalism.  The treatment of telepathy in general, much 
> less the inverted intertemporal causation that has been researched (or 
> whatever the official name is), reminds me of the way the Salem witches 
> were only proven innocent of witchcraft if they drowned, but were guilty 
> and burned if they survived a plunge into the lake.
> 
> I can't even believe telepathy hasn't been fully accepted by the 
> scientific community.  How many times does statistical significance with 
> p=.0000001 need to be demonstrated with skeptics present before this is 
> accepted? 
> 
> -- 

If you can give a few examples of cases in which this is achieved, and 
which are open to testing, then I am willing to listen and believe. I am 
the archetypal mainstream physicist, and the only reason that I do not 
believe in subjects such as as the paranormal yet is that I have not seen 
any papers written and properly presented on the subject. Perhaps the 
journals are not allowing them, but I can't believe that a true psychic 
could not put on a demonstration for someone like CBS, and then show the 
world what is happening.

Anthony Potts

