Sunday, 22 December 2013

Telepathy

David T Lykken was Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He became very famous, far beyond academia, for his studies of identical twins separated at birth. In 1991, in an article reflecting on the practice of psychological research, he wrote these words:
Just as there are few hypotheses that we can claim as proven, so there are relatively few that we can reasonably reject out of hand. Extrasensory perception is a good example. Having worked for years with hundreds of pairs of adult twins, hearing so many anecdotes of apparent telepathic communication between them, which usually occur in moments of stress or crisis, I am inclined to believe in telepathy - as an individual but not as a scientist.

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