The Capricious, Actively Evasive, Unsustainable Nature of Psi: A Summary and Hypotheses (SRC-KENNEDY-2003)

The Capricious, Actively Evasive, Unsustainable Nature of Psi: A Summary and Hypotheses

Kennedy, J. E. · 2003

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Journal of Parapsychology 67(1): 53–74 (no DOI)

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A review by a parapsychology insider cataloguing the field's decline, displacement, and experimenter effects — descriptive, not itself experimental.

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Supports· moderateMPI-E014

what the source states: Kennedy's review argues from the field's own record that psi effects are "capricious, actively evasive, and unsustainable": initially significant paradigms decline, effects shift between variables and experimenters, and no protocol has ever produced sustained, exploitable results.
what we infer: Confirms that the explanandum MPI targets is real as a sociological and statistical pattern in the literature. It does not favor MPI's explanation of the pattern over the null-plus-selection explanation — Kennedy himself canvasses both directions.
limitations: Narrative review by a single author; the pattern description is not itself a quantitative meta-analysis.