Does research support ESP?

Parapsychology and research into ESP has been around for well over 100 years. The main problem with parapsychology is replication. Without replication, then scientific claims on ESP do not mean much. read more

ESP itself is neither scientific nor unscientific — but it can be studied scientifically or unscientifically, and scientific studies find no support for the hypothesis that ESP exists. Those who ignore the evidence and insist that ESP is a real, natural phenomenon fail to meet one of the key aspects of scientific behavior: assimilating the evidence. read more

Without replication, then scientific claims on ESP do not mean much. There are still many people who believe in ESP and they are doing research in the area. I say more power to them. If they can create research that can be replicated by non-believers, then we can claim the research in ESP is credible. So far, that has not happened. read more

Does this conclusively prove that ESP does not exist" "No," says Moulton. "You cannot affirm the null hypothesis. But at the same time, some null results are stronger than others. This is the best evidence to date against the existence of ESP. read more