University scientist claims people can know the future

Professors at the University of Amsterdam are convinced that they have collected enough evidence to conclude that it is possible for humans to see the future. I wonder if they've heard of James Randi's Challenge

Frankly, I think this announcement lends far too much legitimacy to a field that is rife with scammers and charlatans. I would really have liked to see more depth in the story speaking to what the test conditions were and what criteria subjects were appraised with in order to arrive at the conclusions they did.

It almost seems like the reality we are shaping is the result of the fiction that we have created. I think in a lot of ways we are attempting to delude ourselves in the belief that we can define our own rules for the naturalistic world, rather than play by the rules of the reality that surrounds us.

We no longer dare to dream, we go far beyond that. We look at the universe through the lense of fiction rather than reason. I am seeing an alarming trend of bad science leading to even worse conclusions. People who claim scientific data must garner their data from a skeptical and hopefully peer-guided viewpoint. This is not to say that rebels or people who go against the grain are always wrong, quite the contrary it is usually these folks who make a difference. However. A hyperdrive will unlikely be a reality in the coming century, much less the coming decade. Free energy will only exist when wire is free, and Psychics are (probably) not real.