The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, January 02, 2009, 16:44 (5802 days ago) @ David Turell

Since I've been offline in course of my move since 10th December I've just been catching up on the most recent posts, mostly by Bella and DT, on so-called paranormal experiences. There are so many anecdotes similar to these, and so little actual evidence. - Research into such effects has been carried out for at least 150 years and has produced no definite results that can't be adequately explained in terms of imagination, natural phenomena, hoaxes or statistical anomalies (to mention only the more common types). - So I remain totally sceptical that there is any reality in "the paranormal". If it could be shown that there were "psionic waves", or something, pervading the universe that we could somehow tune in to and gain knowledge from the future, past, or distant places, it would be an enormous paradigm change in our knowledge and would earn its discoverers bags of Nobel Prizes. But I suspect they will only ever be winning the Hugo or Nebula awards for science fiction.