Pseudoscientists vs Paranormalists

Not long ago I was asked if Dr. Gary Schwartz's professional career was going the way of Pons & Fleischmann. Pons & Fleischmann made a big splash with their initial announcement of cold fusion in 1989. But as the attempts to replicate the experiment by other labs met with failure, and Pons & Fleischmann failed to produce any positive results, they faded to obscurity. After the news made by Schwartz's books on his study of mediums is he headed for the same fate?

Initially I had answered no. For all the problems with the claims of Pons & Fleischmann, they were trying to do legitimate science. They brought their work up before real scientists, when improvements to their methods were suggested they were tried. Schwartz on the other hand submitted his work to journals specializing in the paranormal. There is also the fact that favorites of the paranormal world never seem to fade. Famed psychic Edward Cayce is still referred to even though his predicted dates for the rise of Atlantis and the Second Coming have long since passed.

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