Reber and Alcock respond to Cardeña's paper in the American Psychologist

Wow, the basis for this paper are really horrid and unscientifical. Now, you know that normally I'm higly skeptical about psi phenomena outside NDEs, but saying that "we didn't look at the data because they are irrelevant" is totally absurd. Most of our current knowledge has been reached through discoveries that conflicted with established paradigms or previous knowledge. one can't just willfully ignore stuff that doesn't exactly fit inside his worldview, that isn't science but fanaticism.

People used to believe birds could fly because they were kept in the air by magical forces or the hand of God and similar things. we would be still stuck at that point following this people's reasoning.