In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.