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VIDEO | “Case Closed: ESP Is Real”

Mitch Horowitz
Feb 16, 2022

speaking at Hereticon, January, 2022

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, one longstanding scientific and philosophic controversy can be laid to rest: extrasensory perception, or ESP, is real. We have amassed overwhelming and replicable evidence that renders ESP denialism a position of sentiment rather than science.

In this presentation at Hereticon in Miami Beach on January 12, 2022, I describe the facts around ESP research — and explore why our intellectual culture has been temporarily deterred from accepting them.

Sound-bite skepticism and polemically skewed coverage — especially on Wikipedia — cannot, finally, dispel the excellence and replicability of decades of academic ESP research.

Is ours the generation that will finally accept the evidence — and thus open new vistas of query?

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Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz

Written by Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China

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I'm absolutely thrilled me to run across this. I'm clairisentient and clairicognizant so I've always known beyond a shadow ESP is real. But I'm a huge fan of science, too and so I've followed along with some of the research (frustratingly) for years…

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Absolutely is ours the generation who will accept.
Your way of carrying yourself verbally is uniquely inspiring.

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1 . "Does PSI Exist? Lack of replication of an anomalous process of information transfer". https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10414223/
Contrary to what is described in this video, this meta-analysis in 1999 finds that "a meta-analysis of 30 ganzfeld…