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All of which can be adequately be explained for with unexpected physical nonverbal communication channels, confirmation bias and various other cognitive biases, and none of which reproducible in a methodologically correct setting, despite decades of trying.

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"Adequate explanation" is a tool of relatively small scope, dependent upon the judgment of individuals, which is of relatively great scope. If many individuals judge it "telepathy" then that carries weight. Let's not put the cart before the horse.

> If many individuals judge it "telepathy" then that carries weight.

No, science is not a trial by popular vote. What carries weight are models, theories, experiments, and falsification.

This can include subjective reports, but the human mind, as brilliant as it can be, is also a never-ending source of biases and (conscious or unconscious) deception, which all need to be corrected for via proper experimental setup.

friends! let us have it both ways!

Humans have telepathy and cognitive biases!

What if collective cognitive biases are the result of telepathy?

It sure can, but whether your explanation is correct is the tricky part.

Luckily, most people can't realize this so the problem "doesn't exist", and "is" solved.

Not sure how I'd "realize correctness" of my explanation, but until I hear a more plausible one (in particular, that means one not introducing extraordinary other assumptions without extraordinary evidence for their existence), I'll stick with mine.

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