Let's say that _verbal reports_ of anomalous phenomena occur.
Identifying the antecedents of these reports is a valid scientific challenge.

At 11:20 PM -0500 2/19/00, Ballard, John wrote:
>Stephen Black wrote:
>
>>I'd say that the biggest challenge is keeping the pseudoscience out of
>psychology.
>
>I'd argue that the biggest challenge is not "throwing the baby out with the
>bathwater". Anomalous psychological phenomena, such as clairvoyance and
>precognition, occur. The pursuit of knowledge is not vested in the blind
>skepticism of CSICOP but rather in the healthy skepticism of inquiry and the
>scientific method.
>
>John B.
>
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