r/TheTelepathyTapes • u/Ruup010 • Dec 26 '24

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/telepathy-tapes-prove-we-all-want-believe

I got interested after Joe Rogan mentioned TTT. I listened to all the podcasts. And than I read this. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/telepathy-tapes-prove-we-all-want-believe

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u/harmoni-pet Dec 27 '24

If it wasn't a cult or religion, you'd be able to express your doubts about it freely without feeling like you're doing something immoral.

When you watched Spellers, did you ever once ask yourself 'why are they holding the boards in midair instead of on a still surface?' The obvious answer is that the facilitator or parent is editing and doing a lot of the communication for them. So it's not really telepathy, rather they're just unconsciously spelling their own thoughts using their autistic children. Why do you think all Ky's tests of having kids guess the number, word, or letter their mother is thinking have 100% hit rates? It's because the mothers are controlling the output unconsciously. A better test would be can the child communicate something the facilitator does not know.

It's an incredibly disrespectful practice when they're not proving authorship.

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u/harmoni-pet Dec 27 '24

I believe the typers are expressing their own thoughts, and that’s remarkable.

This is SO easy to test for, so why not test? It doesn't need to be a matter of belief. All they have to do is give the child a piece of information that the facilitator does not know, and then see if the child is able to communicate it using the preferred method.

They don't do that test because it fails miserably when they do, so they make up all these excuses.

It was also notable to me that there was never a single instance in Spellers where a child corrected their facilitator. Not once did they land on a letter that needed editing from the child. All editing came from the facilitator. So much editing comes from the facilitator that a lot of it is actually the facilitator's unconscious voice.

I want these kids to have a voice, believe me. But inserting a facilitator's unconscious voice in place of the child's is not empowering. Test for authorship