[ExI] ESP

[John K Clark]

"Stefano Vaj" <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>

> Even if the entire "Psy" background had to be discarded as
> consistent with statistical fluctuations and/or "tricks",
> some effort would be in order to explain more in depth
> the epistemological, cultural, sociological and
> methodological aspects that come into play into both
> structured experimenting and anedoctical evidence
> concerning those very phenomena.

Yes millions of people believe in the power of Psy, and even more
believe in the power of prayer, it has far more anedoctical
evidence than Psy does. I have no burning desire for 
science to spend any more time on either phenomenon, because
a negative finding by science will convince no true believer,
not one, and it will just bore everybody else. In other words
they are both Bullshit.

> it is rather apparent that we have never really developed any
> technology  pertaining to the selection, training, reinforcement,
> artificial reproduction of Psy phenomena

Before you talk about developing something there must be
something to develop.

> were it the case, casinos would be out of business.

Yes, and you'd think venture capitalists would be investing
heavily in this area. 

I don't see it, but hey, they didn't get rich by being stupid.

  John K Clark