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"Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity."
—Nietzsche

"I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven..."
—Dr. Richard Wiseman

How do you know?

If a New Age cliche falls flat in front of an audience of skeptics, is it a New Age cliche?

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
—Benford's law of controversy

Nonsense is nonsense, but the study of nonsense is scholarship.
—Gershom Scholem? Saul Lieberman?

First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little ways past them into the impossible.

Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Clarke's Three Laws. Formulated by Arthur C. Clarke.

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.
—Ko?akowski's Law

Individuals can expect miracles to happen to them at the rate of about one per month.
— Littlewood's Law

Explanations should never multiply assumptions without necessity. When two explanations are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest full explanation is preferable (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem).
—Occam's Razor

Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
—Poe's law

Nothing is always absolutely so
—Sturgeon's Law
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This site is just starting out in the world. It contains FAQs and resources concerning parapsychology and the paranormal, especially the debate between parapsychological researchers and their critics outside the field. It focuses on the scientific, rather than the pop-culture side of paranormal research, and attempts to treat every side of debates as fairly as possible. The site aims to give a basic understanding of the nature and scope of parapsychology, and an overview of the debate between parapsychologists and their critics.

"The findings [of parapsychology] may be real, yet their acceptance hinges critically on discovering ways to connect them with the received frameworks of knowledge. As long as there is no conceivable tie between an anomaly and the basic paradigm that frames knowledge in the pertinent field, the anomaly will remain just that: a paradoxical, uncomprehended item, relegated to the back shelf of the science establishment."
           --Subtle Connections: Psi, Grof, Jung, and the Quantum Vacuum   By Ervin Laszlo Read document