The Science Of Precognition: Cosmic Habituation And Decline Effect

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 07:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Precognition (from the Latin præ-,“before,” + cognitio, “acquiring knowledge”), is usually filed under esoteric pseudoscience. There are scientific articles on precognition, but pointing this out often results in the rare admission that scientific journals’ peer review can be flawed badly, so badly that complete nonsense gets all the way through the long process. The latter is very true but seldom admitted. All this is a cultural phenomenon, a question of belonging; naïve scientism wants to lynch you for mentioning clairvoyance but discussing time travel is fine, go figure.Ray Hyman, a noted critic (!) of anything paranormal, remarked: read more

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