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Exactly, the problem is that parapsychology and other junk (let's be honest...) clears the same bar that we set for social science in general. http://slatestar

• DanBC 12y ago
  ...or a bunch of science in general. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9r4k http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9r4k
• munificent 12y ago
  > clears the same bar that we set for social science in general. This may be true, but that doesn't mean all social science is equivalent to parapyschology. Lots of it may go much higher than just "clearing the same bar". It would be a pretty bad test that you could pass by scoring a 5% on. And a score of 99% passes that. That doesn't mean the 99% is a bad score.
• pknight 12y ago
  The fact is current day parapsychological research is far more scrutinised than regular research in the social sciences, because of the controversial implications and because there is a large group of people that simply won't entertain the possibility of positive results. The most prominent paranormal researchers employ far more skeptical rigour than other skeptical commentators who dismiss any finding. Because it's called "paranormal" the default is "there must be something wrong with the methods" and so naturally people find fault with the methods. Hypothetically, even if real paranormal effects are surfacing in the data, the nature of the research works against persuading certain circles.