Comment Re:I don't think people care (Score 0, Troll) 470
I think the basic problem is a mixing of the levels.
Ghosts clearly exist, but I believe them to be features of the human mind. Saying they don't exist is like saying that software doesn't exist.
Telepathy is believed in with certainty because before people are able to talk, they observe older folk around them transfering thoughts from one to another. Remember that the older name for telepathy is "thought transferrence".
Etc. You literally can't prove these things wrong, because at their roots they aren't wrong. They only become wrong when they get turned into words and talked about in a social context.
OTOH, I've had a bit of success with dowsing, (two out of two, when I was seriously trying...not statistically significant) and a bit of success with gambling (1 out of 1 when I was seriously trying against a slot machine...I wone $7 starting with a quarter). And I can't explain those, except that they aren't statistically significant. But I wonder. So I'm not unbiased.
But the real thing is that I don't believe that the current schools CAN teach how to apply the methods of science even to ordinary phenomena. They should tackle something that is at once more basic and more useful: Critical thinking.