My Crystal Ball Tells Me...

by tristero

...that the silly paper described here is some kind of bogus nonsense, most likely a prank or meta-study of how fragile and prone to fraud are authority and reputations in some fields of scientific inquiry today. Then again, it could simply be one of several other factors that created the illusion of esp; my crystal ball is kind of cloudy right now.

By the way, to assert that current scientific practices, in many fields, have vast room for improvement is not to fall into Jonah Lehrer's fallacy , that "When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe." Rather, it is simply stating the obvious, that scientific inquiry is a difficult process, that genuine knowledge of the world is hard to come by, inevitably contingent and subject to revision and refinement.