> That's not to say psi investigators deserve personal attack for their efforts, it's a harmless belief. I'd say they might be offended, because as scientists

> That's not to say psi investigators deserve personal attack for their efforts, it's a harmless belief. I'd say they might be offended, because as scientists they have accumulated a public body of work. Why can't it speak for itself, like all scientific work? > But i think it's also NOT ok to dismiss unsupported ideas without engaging with them. I inserted the NOT, because I think you forgot to. > if there is a real phenomenon there, somebody will use it to do something People do commonly use it, it is a part of everyone's daily life, the normally invisible undiscussed part of the why and the how. But that's not the point. Scientists, and by extension society itself, favor hard science, first and foremost because it allows them to function culturally. So now we have a culture, and cultures tend, to establish themselves, to harass those that are not a part of them. They attract those that do the harassment, and puts them in power. Power means the cultural bullies win in a court of law, regardless of evidence, and that the court will tell the other side to shut the f*ck up. The undesirable traits in the above are cultural side-effects. We live a culture which trumps science, as it wages a war. In a war we all lose, yet the one-eyed, those that trump the culture, somehow account a win. They feel they win by exempting themselves. The point is, ESP is under attack, not because it is guilty of being unscientific, but because of the existence of cultural power, and because the exploit of this power provides sociopaths with a habitat, to power abuse, cultural abuse. We are immersed in this culture, by nature it is intolerant: violent in and of itself.