Posted: Aug 16, 2010 10:14 am
by Kaleid
Yes. It also seems to be the case that a lot of people that conduct research in this field are reluctant to keep a tally of just how many null hypotheses have had to be accepted over the years.

I only recently came across this. A friend of mine is working on a new TV show that aims to explore apparently paranormal phenomena, so it got me interested in exploring the nature of the studies that have been done - the Jerome v campermon debate has been informative as well as entertaining.

This caught my attention - from Wiki:

Wikipedia wrote:James E. Alcock, Professor of Psychology at York University - a controversial commentator on psi research has asserted that few of parapsychology's experimental results have prompted interdisciplinary research with more mainstream sciences such as physics or biology, and that parapsychology remains an isolated science to such an extent that its very legitimacy is questionable, and as a whole is not justified in being labeled "scientific"


Hopefully someone here will correct me if I'm mistaken, but this seems quite a convincing point to me.