Is telekinesis and telepathy real???

Question

My friends and i were talking about it in school yesterday and we were not sure if it was real or not so like if you really know if it's real or not plz do tell

Answer 1

Telekinesis (TK) is now called Psychokinesis (PK) in the scientific research literature. Evidence for PK has been collected and established since the 1930's when it was first studied in a scientific manner by J. B. Rhine.

I have included links for you below so you can read up on the actual research.

Despite claims that no one has ever demonstrated PK it has been demonstrated by thousands of people during thousands of experiments (many repeated) at statistically significant levels.

While this work certainly has critics most of them fail to get published in peer reviewed science journals where the original research is published.

Telepathy is more difficult as that no true test for telepathy can be established. For instance if I think of a 65 Mustang and you say I am thinking of a 65 Mustang I could say No, I was thinking of a blooming Rose. In order to have confirmation I would need to write/draw what I was thinking and then the possibility of you acquiring this information via ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) has been created. For this reason many test are called ESP test and not Telepathy test.

However, an early attempt of this was made by Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer Prize) in his one book on psychic phenomena called "Mental Radio" where he describes tests with his wife.

There is ample evidence (see links below) that ESP is an established phenomena. Many of course believe that something else unexplained is taking place because ESP has no good testable theory. But the days for blaming positive results on poor methodology and poor statistics has ended for any actual scientist.

FYI, Randi is a magician with no science training and even leading skeptic Ray Hyman dismisses his challenge as both not real science and a publicity stunt.

"But as a leading Fellow of CSICOP, Ray Hyman, has pointed out, this "prize" cannot be taken seriously from a scientific point of view: "Scientists don't settle issues with a single test, so even if someone does win a big cash prize in a demonstration, this isn't going to convince anyone. Proof in science happens through replication, not through single experiments." (link below)

Edit to Denie: Welcome to the dance of the skeptic. That person like many skeptics can now say "I have seen no evidence". I've always been more willing to seem crazy to others than continue being ignorant.