Literature "(pseudo) skeptical" is characterized by mockery, lack of rigor and easy shortcuts. Combining bad faith, bigotry, ignorance and knowledge filtering (to impose on others what is "real" and what can not be, what must be thought or rejected), denies anything that contradicts the ideological materialism before having made any serious research to prove or disprove a theory, a hypothesis, an idea or paradigm. Denying all this block without any evidence (and no openness, that is to say, they do not deny in the name of science, but in the name of ideological assumptions therefore filter the science of all element contradicting ideologies, elements that exist or may exist, because science does not prohibit the existence of other degrees of the Real, and the complexity of the physical universe and the vastness of existence, and the variety of orders that we experience; physical, mental, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and others; why should we deny their existence?). Richard Wiseman is no exception here. This book (see the summary and description about unreliable propagandist website htt p:. // Ww w.zetetique en / miscellaneous / POZ76.pdf) is based only on fraudulent cases (which exist in every field: medicine , politics, history, paleontology, etc. but would have the audacity to refuse outright the reality of the existence of the relative effectiveness of medicine, history, politics, etc. to solve problems existing? honest and intelligent person anyway). Then, even among the (attempts) explanations, some are hypothetical and suffer from deficiencies, and lack of evidence to confirm the actual, without any doubt. It would suffice to return the author to the work of Yves Lignon or Russel Targ ("extrasensory perceptions" published in 2014, a more recent book than Richard Wiseman) who cite laboratory experiments, practical and reliable, with witnesses and a rigorous and documented methodology protocols. Thus, it is always the same method; they omit the many experiences and observations well documented, verified and confirmed, and some argue that fraudulent recognized cases (or in any doubtful case as sometimes they are not able to clearly demonstrate the deception), to induce from a individual or isolated cases, to a general conclusion without any evidence or nuance. Moreover, they introduce their ideologies instead of purely scientific data, and therefore are more ideological propaganda than science "pure".
The Russel Targ book leaves no doubt as concrete and observable manifestations of the phenomena (para) psi was observed, reducing the reductionist thesis assuming that everything would be "the fruit of the brain" (and therefore "illusions / hallucinations "), a gold effect occurring outside the brain, in the sensitive or psychic world without physical causal-link is a fact and is part of the non-fictional Real, which completely invalidates the materialist paradigm.
