nietzsche wrote:The psychic phenomena is real, but it's surrounded by many fraudulent claims as well, specially because people is willing to spend money on fortune tellers.
What I don't understand is why "man of science" close their eyes to it, when it doesn't defy science at all, science is supposed to describe what the real world is, not to say what can be and what cannot.
There have been many double blind tests confirming the psychic abilities of normal subjects, done in universities, and the metadata completely confirms it. Yet "man of science" claim they cannot repeat them, actually I don't think they even try. But if they try to repeat some experiment less probable for which they are biased, I bet they replicate it in the first try.
Its not so much that real scientists dispute this.. most actually do not, its just that since it has little real value because it is so rare. Also, I think most folks are rather glad that science is not yet to the point of actually being able to, say, train people predict things reliably. However, there are experiments that are getting closer.. studies into better types of "lie detectors", studies into what part of the brain is used for various types of thinking, etc.
Besides, if there ever were anything truly real, it would not be long before folks doing the research started getting "knocks on the door" from government types. Overall, its probably safer for any real psychics that most people don't believe they are anything but frauds.