Editing Telepathy (section)

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[[File:Ganzfeld.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Ganzfeld experiment]]s that aimed to demonstrate telepathy have been criticized for lack of replication and poor controls.<ref>[[David Marks (psychologist)|Marks, David]]; Kammann, Richard. (2000). ''[[The Psychology of the Psychic]]''. Prometheus Books. pp. 97–106. {{ISBN|1573927988}}</ref><ref>[[Ray Hyman|Hyman, Ray]]. ''Evaluating Parapsychological Claims''. In Robert J. Sternberg, Henry L. Roediger, Diane F. Halpern. (2007). ''Critical Thinking in Psychology''. [[Cambridge University Press]]. pp. 216–231. {{ISBN|978-0521608343}}</ref>]]
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'''Telepathy''' ({{etymology|grc|''{{wikt-lang|grc|τῆλε}}'' ({{grc-transl|τῆλε}})|distant||''{{wikt-lang|grc|πάθος}}/{{wikt-lang|grc|-πάθεια}}'' ({{grc-transl|πάθος/-πάθεια}})|[[feeling]], [[perception]], [[passion (emotion)|passion]], [[suffering|affliction]], [[experience]]}})<ref>{{cite Collins Dictionary|telepathy}}</ref><ref>Following the model of [[sympathy|sym'''pathy''']] and [[empathy|em'''pathy''']].</ref> is the purported [[vicariousness|vicarious]] transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar [[Frederic William Henry Myers|Frederic W. H. Myers]],<ref name=hamilton121>{{cite book | title=Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian search for life after death | first=Trevor | last=Hamilton | publisher=Imprint Academic | year=2009 | isbn=978-1845402488 | page=121}}</ref> a founder of the [[Society for Psychical Research]] (SPR),<ref name=skepdic1>
{{cite web
| url = http://skepdic.com/telepath.html
| title = The Skeptic's Dictionary; Telepathy
| author = Carroll, Robert Todd
| year = 2005
| publisher = Skepdic.com
| access-date = 2006-09-13
}}</ref> and has remained more popular than the earlier expression ''thought-transference''.<ref name=skepdic1/><ref name=parasocie1>[http://parapsych.org/glossary_s_z.html#t Glossary of Parapsychological terms – Telepathy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927060915/http://parapsych.org/glossary_s_z.html |date=2006-09-27 }} – [[Parapsychological Association]]. Retrieved December 19, 2006.</ref>

Telepathy experiments have historically been criticized for a lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no good evidence that telepathy exists, and the topic is generally considered by the [[scientific community]] to be [[pseudoscience]].<ref name="Planer1980">Felix Planer. (1980). ''Superstition''. Cassell. p. 218. {{ISBN|0304306916}} "Many experiments have attempted to bring scientific methods to bear on the investigation of the subject. Their results based on literally millions of tests, have made it abundantly clear that there exists no such phenomenon as telepathy, and that the seemingly successful scores have relied either on illusion, or on deception."</ref><ref name="Dalkvist1994">{{cite book|author=Jan Dalkvist|title=Telepathic Group Communication of Emotions as a Function of Belief in Telepathy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhsRAQAAIAAJ|access-date=5 October 2011|year=1994|publisher=Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University|quote=Within the scientific community however, the claim that psi anomalies exist or may exist is in general regarded with skepticism. One reason for this difference between the scientist and the non scientist is that the former relies on his own experiences and anecdotal reports of psi phenomena, whereas the scientist at least officially requires replicable results from well controlled experiments to believe in such phenomena—results which according to the prevailing view among scientists, do not exist.}}</ref><ref name="Drees1998">{{cite book|author=Willem B. Drees|title=Religion, Science and Naturalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxmcHWCv2c4C&pg=PA242|access-date=5 October 2011|date=28 November 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521645621|pages=242–|quote=Let me take the example of claims in parapsychology regarding telepathy across spatial or temporal distances, apparently without a mediating physical process. Such claims are at odds with the scientific consensus.}}</ref><ref>Spencer Rathus. (2011). ''Psychology: Concepts and Connections''. Cengage Learning. p. 143. {{ISBN|978-1111344856}} "There is no adequate scientific evidence that people can read other people's minds. Research has not identified one single indisputable telepath or clairvoyant."</ref> Telepathy is a common theme in [[science fiction]].