Is Parapsychology Accepted in the Scientific Community?

[Adrian Lee]

I wonder if it is allowed to discuss this topic here,since it is the general discussion forum.
I’m interested in biophysics,and while reading essays I came over people citing these articles which studies this topic.Some of the researchers are from reputable leading universities and they post articles on parapsychological journals that mainstream scientists ignore.They claim to have found evidence for precognition,PK (intentionally influencing random number generators),communicating with the dead and so on.Skeptics like James Alcock,Sean Carrol have been criticizing.Some physicists are open to this and propose models of consciousness (altering the born rule,using many worlds…) to explain them.
I’m worried about it’s implications,for example,idealism or solipsism,which I cannot accept.
I’ve been discussing these with famous scientists like Scott Aaronson,and these topics always push them away from me…

 

[PeroK]

Regarding communication with the dead ... a family was paying its last respects to a loved one at the funeral parlour, when a mobile phone went off inside the coffin. It went unanswered.

 

[Borek]

They claim to have found evidence

and none of that claims survives the peer review.

At the same time we know enough about the world and its physics to not see gaps where parapsychological phenomena could fit. You are either serious about the treatment of reality, or you do cargo science.

 

[Adrian Lee]

and none of that claims survives the peer review.

At the same time we know enough about the world and its physics to not see gaps where parapsychological phenomena could fit. You are either serious about the treatment of reality, or you do cargo science.

But in 2018 they had a paper on American Psychologist claiming for strong evidence.(Reber and Alcock had a refutation published at once)
Both sides had physicists supporting their views.Two anon physicists confirmed Alcock’s criticism,and some (even Nobels included,but the Brian Josephson’crackpot kind).
I wonder why some reputable physicists,in their late ages,pick up the interest in these stuff.For example Josephson,Wolfgang Pauli,Tsian X.S,Henry Stapp…and a lot others…known as the Nobel disease…

 

[jedishrfu]

We don’t discuss parapsychology here as it tends to derail into non scientific mumbo jumbo and anecdotal fringe evidence.

Closing this thread