Contentious posts split out of The Telepathy Tapes

There can be a tension between rigorous investigation and medical propriety.

For example (from a slightly different field), Sam Parnia found it very hard to get permission to install enough high level images to test if NDE experiences could see any of them!

To me, there comes a point where a little less rigour can achieve more in some of these studies.

If autism/neurodivergence turns out to have no psychic aspects, then a time will come when the hypothesis would need to be dropped, but I don't think that time has come.

David

My statement is more that Autism and neurodivergence do not meaningfully confer greater or stronger psychic aspects than the general population. Same with any other physical or psychological differences in individuals. However, I am rather aware that strong emotions can strengthen or weaken pre-existing psychic capabilities ~ I've experienced this in significant ways. As happiness and calmness can strengthen and clarify, grief and depression can weaken and distort. But, the impact of emotions can vary from individual to individual also.

It is easy to conflate if one has individual cases where someone is both psychic and Autistic / neurodivergent, and so therefore does making claims that may not actually be the case generally ~ but one first needs to establish an actual pattern across many, many more cases, to rule out these sort of issues.

That is why proper parapsychological studies spend years continuously testing telepathic and psychic capabilities on a bunch of known capable subjects to get enough results that can be clearly ruled, by scientific requirements, to be above chance.