IIT's Adversarial Moment: When Consciousness Theories Have to Actually Compete

A volunteer research coalition just published what may be the most methodologically serious attempt yet to find a pattern in historical UAP data — and the pattern they found is str…

Two systematic reviews of ESP neuroimaging research landed within weeks of each other this summer, and together they tell a story that's more interesting than either a debunking or…

A new systematic review just did something the field of parapsychology rarely manages: it looked at more than seven decades of its own work and said, plainly, that the evidence doe…

Three document drops in, and the Pentagon's UAP disclosure effort has produced something genuinely interesting — just not what most people expected. The latest batch of declassifie…

The hardest thing about quantum consciousness theories has always been the same problem: they're unfalsifiable in practice. You can gesture at microtubules, invoke coherence times,…

There's a persistent folk theory about meditation: that it works slowly, that benefits accumulate over months of practice, and that the neurological action is somewhere in the long…

There's a number that keeps showing up in psi research and refuses to go away quietly: roughly 32–33%. In a standard ganzfeld experiment — sensory deprivation, white noise, a "rece…

The most honest sentence in the Pentagon's recent UAP releases isn't about orbs or acceleration anomalies. It's buried in the fine print of the first tranche: the files "have not y…

There's a version of this story that writes itself badly. "Quantum entanglement proves distant healing" — the headline practically generates itself, and it would be wrong in almost…

There's a version of this question that mainstream neuroscience has been comfortable with for decades: your brain begins processing a stimulus before you consciously register it. T…

The field of parapsychology has spent decades accumulating findings that don't survive contact with the next lab. A new review from the University of Virginia's Division of Percept…

There's a pattern worth naming: the United States government has now created offices, held hearings, issued directives, and missed deadlines — all in the name of UAP transparency —…

There's a version of this conversation that goes nowhere fast: someone invokes quantum mechanics to explain consciousness, someone else rolls their eyes, and both parties leave fee…

The standard move for dismissing psi research is to call it unnatural — a category error, a wish dressed up as data. A new paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration tries a di…

There's a specific kind of institutional move worth watching: when a government agency starts convening academics not to announce findings, but to figure out how to collect data pr…

There's a version of consciousness research that's been stuck for thirty years: philosophers argue about qualia, neuroscientists map correlates, and nobody agrees on what would act…

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office now has more than 2,000 cases in its active caseload. Defense Secretary Hegseth has publicly reaffirmed the Trump administration…

The most rigorous finding to emerge from recent psi methodology research isn't about telepathy or precognition. It's about the researchers themselves. A 2024 study from the Univers…

The skeptic's standard move against parapsychology is simple: nothing replicates. It's a clean kill shot. Except it's not quite accurate anymore, and the field's own researchers ar…