There is insufficient evidence to support the claim that some people can read the minds of other people by using telepathy. Telepathy is defined as "Communication through means other than the senses." Sufficient evidence would be people showing the repeated ability to state what another person was thinking, without any other communications. This would of course have to be demonstrated by a credible source.
Dr. Richard Wiseman obtained a first class honors degree in Psychology from University College London and a doctorate in psychology from Edinburgh University. Dr. Wiseman currently heads the Perrott-Warrick Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire. In December of 2000 Dr. Wiseman conducted a large scale test for evidence of telepathy. He conducted ten experiments, all of which we
Dr. Wiseman is not the first, nor the last to venture into this type of testing. In 1927, one of the very first of such tests took place, by Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University. Rhine tested hundreds of people for evidence of telepathy. He acquired specially designed cards with simple symbols on them. Five each of five designs were shuffled and randomly shown to a person. This person would then attempt to send the image they were seeing to another person. After conducting this experiment numerous times, Rhine compared the results to those that he would have received through pure chance. Following years of testing Rhine never found any evidence to prove that anyone could perform beyond chance guesses.
Let's pretend for a moment that there was some statistical evidence supporting telepathy (ev
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