Reply #92: ESP is not a straw man

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Not considering how much time, money and ink that might have been better spent have been wasted on it. In fact, it's a prime example of scientific investigators beating their heads against a wall for over a century and STILL struggling to replicate events of even marginal statistical significance within experimental designs that aren't deeply flawed and STILL unable to propose even remotely plausible and testable mechanisms for how such phenomena might occur even if there were real. It's certainly possible to investigate such alleged events and abilities scientifically, but one of the hallmarks of a true science, as opposed to a pseudoscience, is that it advances in knowledge and understanding over time, mainly because it is studying things that actually exist. The study of ESP and other "psi"
phenomenon has failed this criterion miserably, and it's entirely justifiable to shunt that area of research into the category of pseudoscience.