A panel commissioned by the United States National Research Council to study paranormal claims concluded that `` despite a 130-year record of scientific research on such matters , our committee could ﬁnd no scientific justification for the existence of phenomena such as extrasensory perception , mental telepathy or ` mind over matter ' exercises ... Evaluation of a large body of the best available evidence simply does not support the contention that these phenomena exist . ''
A panel commissioned by the United States National Research Council to study paranormal claims concluded that `` despite a 130-year record of scientiﬁc research on such matters , our committee could ﬁnd no scientiﬁc justiﬁcation for the existence of phenomena such as extrasensory perception , mental telepathy or ` mind over matter ' exercises ... Evaluation of a large body of the best available evidence simply does not support the contention that these phenomena exist . ''