Parascience has so far failed to produce a single repeatable finding and, until it does, will continue to be viewed as an incoherent collection of belief systems steeped in fantasy, illusion and error.
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Marks, D. Investigating the paranormal. Nature 320, 119–124 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/320119a0
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