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Originally Posted by Chris Noble 
It was entirely reasonable to hypothesize on this basis that low dose aspirin might protect against heart disease. This is the way that real science works.
The same thing cannot be said about any supposed "psi" effects. The source of these ideas is not through established science. These ideas come form the same place as beliefs in fairies and alien abductions.
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I agree. But I don't understand the signifigance of it. There were a lot of reports by people claiming to experience alien abductions, telepathy, pk, faries, and pain relief from willow bark tea. Some scientists decided to test whether there could be any truth behind the claims about telepathy, pk, and willow bark tea. After doing a lot of experiments in a lab they found out that the reports telepathy, pk, and willow bark tea were .....
So what is the problem with this? People observe a phenomena and science tests it. Does that make the results invalid? Are you saying the results can't be valid? Willow bark tea has asprin in it. If you trace back every scientific discovery to a previous one you have to reach the start before which there was no science since science began at some point in history.