[Mojave]

I know a Bormanis that worked at Stanford and did exceptional work in the field of Neurology. He eventually contributed to a paper demonstrating that telepathy would violate the currently understood laws about the conservation of energy.

So this "Bormanis" (no first name) refuted telepathy? Have you forgotten your original assertion?

Carl Jung - yes the psychologist - also did not believe in the literal truth of telepathy.

Have you forgotten your original assertion?

Zener, Metzger, and Rhiner were supposed to be a balance to Bormanis and Jung since both of them are traditionally considered hostile. They developed tests - and that is the point - they developed scientific testing that was verifiable and reproducable to get to the bottom of this

Their experiments failed.

If there was not a perception that something was going on then no tests would have been developed.

We've moved from the crackpot Turing's claim of "overwhelming" evidence (which did NOT exist) to "a perception."

That's some fancy dancing.

[TomOnTheRun]

My original assertion was that a lot of reputable people, in addition to Turing, believed that telepathy was a reality on that time based on the evidence at hand. They then began to study and test it. The people that were still alive a decade later almost universally refuted it after testing and analysis. Turing died at 42 - he could have lived a lot longer and I also said earlier that I believed that if he stuck to scientific principles he would have turned his face away from it as well. I’ll stand by that. I think he would have abandoned those ideas after the research that followed.