Enjoyable discussion... I don't imagine Venom complaining about this one with Alex defending sceptics
from Chris Carter's desire to get across how die-hard skeptics historically have reacted to evidence for psi ..... and that made this discussion interesting
Personally I think there are degrees of scepticism from open minded doubt to 'pathological disbelief' (as Nobel Laureate physicist Brian Josephson termed it).... whereas Alex has no chance of converting the die-hard skeptic unwilling to even take part in an experiment I think Alex has a decent chance of influencing the opinions of hard core sceptics willing to take part in the experiments..... and that is arguably the best way forward and might achieve more than parapsychologists locked away in labs trying to make sense of the anomalous results
Parpasychology has tended to think the data will speak for itself and win over die-hard skeptics .... it hasn't happened, it didn't happen when Nobel Laureate Charles Richet found evidence for telepathy around 1890s using the first statistical methods... or since.