Phronk:
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I am in academia, and an admitted interest in parapsychology could do real harm to my career.
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Bertvan: This is not only true of an interest in parapsychology, but academics dare not show an interest in any subject these days that does not dogmatically parrot the tenets of deterministic materialism.
I know psi exists; I experienced it. A century ago many people in this country had no trouble getting a table to move around. They believed they could do it and they did. Even though I witnessed examples of mind interacting with matter by table tipping, I doubted deceased spirits were involved. But whether or not table tipping is a real phenomenon is not important. What is important is that academia has become so dogmatically entrenched that no one is permitted to investigate anything that shows doubt about materialism..
Questioning the materialist view of biology is equally forbidden. Anyone doubting that “natural selection” can organize a bunch of genetic accidents into complex biological systems is denounced as “an ignorant creationist”. There should be enough tenured professors to fight such tyranny, but sadly that doesn’t seem to be true.
http://30145.myauthorsite.com/
See question ten of my “Questions about Materialism” for my experience with table tipping.