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I don’t understand this. To the extent that parapsychology studies are well designed, the scientific community should be open minded enough to try to reproduce

• gus_massa 11y ago
  Yes, in an ideal word it would be easy to reproduce all the well designed experiments. But it's costly * Time and Money. * You have to assign a graduate student or a postdoc to reproduce the experiment. He/She will get probably a null result that cant publish anywhere (or in a low impact journal if lucky). * It's necessary to copy all the devices. Probably the equipment in the research article is custom made and not available of the shelf, so it's necessary to make the modifications. * It's necessary to gather and manage the volunteers and the staff. Get a quiet place that is available at the right time and be sure that everyone is there. * If you can't reproduce the result, the original team can claim that you didn't follow some detail that they didn't explain in detail in the paper. So someone has to repeat the experiment again. * If you reproduce the result, you have to check carefully that there are no side channels that explain the result, because if someone discover them later you can be labeled as a crackpot for life. * It's more easy to make a small variation of a well known experiment. You will probably be successful an you will get another paper for you and your team members. (If you are feeling lucky you can try an interesting modification. It's less sure because it can fail, but if it successful you will get more fame (and can share a little of it with your team members).)