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Originally Posted by Ian But I'm talking about mainstream science . . . Those who subscribe to the mainstream view reject anything magical like psi or anything which cannot be given conventional explanations. |
No they don't, not necessarily. That's the materialist viewpoint but not all mainstream scientists are materialists.
That's why I recommend the book I linked to. Again, it surveys people in
elite scientific positions in academia for their views on these questions. It is a scientific study on the sociology of parapsychological views in mainstream science.
The answers don't correspond with what you are thinking -- there is a big mix of views present. In other words this is yet another example of research providing results that at first sight are counter-intuitive.
The polarizing nature of skepticism tends to hide these subtleties.