The latter would indeed be remarkable, given what we know about the laws of physics. However, many of these experiments produce results in excess of chance expectation, so some effect is operating. From the point of view of the skeptics, all of the experiments are questionable because of the inadequacy of the randomization of the RNG outputs. That is, the random-number generator itself is not ideally random, and its bias must also be measured and taken into account. The National Research Council Report concludes that after 15 years of research, only one of hundreds of experiments met the minimal criteria of scientific acceptability, and that one experiment yielded results of just marginals significance.
Test subjects wear halves of ping-pong balls over their eyes while white noise plays in earphones.
In this state of sensory depravation, a sender attempts to psychically communicate a randomly selected target to the subject. The subject is later asked to match his perceptions to the targets. Still, the research has failed to produce results that convince psychologists that ESP exists. In summary, the existence of ESP has not been demonstrated in either everyday life or the laboratory. The ESP radiation should be detectable directly and capable of study by sensitive instruments.