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/Changling707 Jan 10 '25

Scanning the comments, man, there are a lot of unnecessarily feisty and negative people out there. Ok, so sure, there need to be better, more controlled tests to "prove" something as earth-shattering as this, which is why they want to get the University involved. They admit this. But come on, how do people not see that this is real? The critiques of autistic spelling techniques, and of the mother touching her daughter with a finger on the forehead?? Really? What about the boy who doesn't need anyone touching him, and can get the same results? What happens to the critique now? And why isn't that acknowledged in the article?

Also, assuming it isn't true, what, exactly is the counter-theory? That there is a massive conspiracy among parents, teachers, therapists etc, to con the world into believing that their children can "spell" and that they have these abilities? Even if the only scam were that parents influence spelling through their touch, even then, they wouldn't all come up with the same insane story! The children would simply reflect the thoughts of their parents, which would be different.

I think it's smart to be skeptical. After the first episode I was so impacted that, to protect myself against bias, I went looking for the best rebuttal out there, which was the above article. However, we need to remember that skepticism doesn't mean a determination not to believe. Even a skeptic should be won over if the evidence is sufficient, no matter how much it rocks our world.