Do telepathy clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences. Why is a topic of enduring an d widespread interest met with such resounding silence in academia? The answer is not due to a lack of scientific evidence or even to a lack of scientific interest but rather involves a taboo. Dean Radin discusses the nature of this taboo some of the empirical evidence and critical responses and speculate on the implications.Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at ATT Bell Labs and GTE Labs mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services and held appointments at Princeton University Edinburgh University University of Nevada Las Vegas SRI International Interval Research Corporation and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities principally psi phenomena.

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