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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''This page presents the mainstream-scientific position that telepathy is pseudoscience.''' It is one of the wiki's [[The Cosmic Codex|Cosmic Codex]] skeptic-register pages, intentionally distinct in voice from cluster-positive content. It links to the cluster-positive [[Telepathy]] page for the alternative view.<br />
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== Mainstream Position ==<br />
The dominant scientific position holds telepathy — non-sensory direct mind-to-mind information transit — as not established by available evidence:<br />
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* '''No accepted physical mechanism.''' No known physical pathway permits direct mind-to-mind information transit at the level of magnitude reported in claimed cases.<br />
* '''No reliable independent replication.''' Across over a century of research (Society for Psychical Research from 1882; Rhine programme 1930s+; Ganzfeld-protocol 1970s+), no telepathy effect has been independently replicated at level required for mainstream acceptance.<br />
* '''Effect-size attenuation under tight protocols.''' Where positive results have been claimed, effects tend to attenuate as methodology tightens — a pattern consistent with methodological artifact rather than genuine effect.<br />
* '''Publication bias plausible.''' Meta-analyses suffer credible publication-bias concerns; positive-result studies may be over-published relative to null-result work.<br />
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== Key Critical Literature ==<br />
* '''Hyman 1985 ''Journal of Parapsychology'' Ganzfeld review.''' Identified methodological problems in Ganzfeld literature; subsequent dialectic with Honorton produced 1986 ''joint communiqué'' recognising issues.<br />
* '''Hyman 1995 AIR review of Project Stargate.''' Concluded operational utility was not demonstrated despite some statistically significant lab results.<br />
* '''Wiseman 1996 ''Skeptical Inquirer'' on RV.''' Detailed critical analysis of RV claims.<br />
* '''Wagenmakers et al. 2011.''' Bayesian re-analysis of Bem 2011 precognition data finding evidence weaker than originally reported.<br />
* '''Galak et al. 2012 ''JPSP''.''' Failed independent replication of Bem 2011 series.<br />
* '''Carroll ''Skeptic's Dictionary'' entries on ESP and telepathy.''' Encyclopedic skeptic-tradition reference.<br />
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== Alternative Accounts ==<br />
For phenomenology that observers attribute to telepathy:<br />
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* '''Cold-reading.''' Standard mentalist technique using high-base-rate generalities and observer feedback.<br />
* '''Subjective-validation.''' Forer-effect-class endorsement of vague descriptions.<br />
* '''Common-base prediction.''' Shared cultural background makes some apparently-impressive coincidences statistically likely.<br />
* '''Confirmation bias.''' Selective recall of hits and forgetting of misses.<br />
* '''Hot-reading.''' Pre-acquired information presented as cold reading.<br />
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== Engagement with Cluster Position ==<br />
The [[Telepathy]] page presents the cluster-positive view with its own evidence-base argument. Disagreement between this skeptic page and the cluster-positive page reflects genuine open question, not editorial inconsistency: the wiki maintains both for documentary completeness.<br />
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The cluster's strongest evidence-base argument (Ganzfeld meta-analyses, Bem 2011 series, some Stargate sessions) is real and should be engaged on its merits. The skeptic counter is that the effect-sizes, replication-record, and methodological-attenuation patterns are individually and cumulatively consistent with no-effect plus methodological-artifact accounts.<br />
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== See Also (Cluster-Positive) ==<br />
* [[Telepathy]] - cluster-positive page<br />
* [[Psychic Abilities]] - cluster-faculty hub<br />
* [[Psychic Abilities Are Fake]] - sibling skeptic-stub (broader)<br />
* [[Psychotronic Weapons Are Fake]] - sibling skeptic-stub (psychotronics)<br />
* [[Project Stargate]] (K2e) - documented programme<br />
* [[Psi]] - cluster umbrella<br />
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== See Also (Skeptic Tradition) ==<br />
* [[Skeptoid Podcast]] - skeptic-tradition reference<br />
* [[Materialist Science]] - philosophical position<br />
* [[Circular Logic]] - reasoning-error reference</div>JonoThora