Wow on the very real barriers to research on psi and extraordinary experiences:
“One reviewer, evaluating a manuscript on remote viewing, simply wrote: ‘This is pseudoscience. Remote viewing is indistinguishable from random guessing.’ Another reviewer of the same manuscript repeated, twenty-four times: ‘The request for a 100-word review [sic] to reject pseudoscience is ABUSE of reviewer time,’ followed by 101 exclamation points. The comment offered no methodological critique of the study—only a childish dismissal. The editor then advised me to reconsider my professional trajectory if I intended to continue conducting this kind of research.”
An interesting read from Dr. Marina Weiler, and further fodder for my ongoing research on what lies underneath the woo-woo taboo: The Unbearable Fear of Psi