Now we have quantum mechanics, acupuncture, the unconscious, and interpsychic communication. People can move objects with their minds. How you think affects your immune system. Extra terrestrials from flying saucers have abducted humans. There are millions of infinitesimal creatures living in your body and mine.
General intelligence is the most efficient predictor of job performance.
Our sense perceptions tell us that, except for some drastic variations like the Grand Canyon, the earth is essentially flat. Most of us base our concept of the solar system on what we are told that experts have observed. We are similarly told that other experts report extra terrestrial visits to the earth. We accept some premises and reject others, largely because of what is acceptable to our mentors or peers. Despite well-controlled experiments that find ESP occurring at greater than chance levels, some of us readily conclude that ESP does not exist.