The recent popularity of the podcast Telepathy Tapes highlights the concept of telepathy, the extra-sensory communication between people through thoughts. Nonverbal people with autism “possess gifts that defy conventional understanding,” including telepathy.
“For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight,” read the podcast website.
Except there is no scientific evidence to support telepathy, particularly in nonverbal communicators.
Telepathy has always been a controversial topic among scientific experts. Dr. Stuart Vyse is a psychologist specializing in superstition and other forms of irrational behavior and referred to the Telepathy Tapes in an article in Skeptical Inquirer as a “dangerous cornucopia of pseudoscience.” So, does telepathy exist in this scenario and what do the experts think of the concept?
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