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It is also sometimes referred to as <b>telekinesis</b>, or <b>TK</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Like <a href="/wiki/Telepathy" title="Telepathy">telepathy</a>, PK has been investigated for many years by various organisations, with no results.<sup id="cite_ref-skepdic_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skepdic-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Imagined_success"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Imagined success</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Blaming_the_victim"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Blaming the victim</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Publication_bias"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Publication bias</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Quantum_mechanics_or_vague"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Quantum mechanics or vague</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#As_the_stuff_of_horror_movies"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">As the stuff of horror movies</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Imagined_success">Imagined success</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Imagined success">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Wouldn't it be simply wonderful if you could change the physical world and achieve whatever you want in life just by the power of your thought and your will? </p><p>You can move your body by the power of your mind alone. Why not try to move outside objects the same way? </p><p>There are <a href="/wiki/Shyster" title="Shyster">people</a> and organisations out there who promise to teach you how to do psychokinesis. </p><p>You just become their acolyte and pay the <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woomeisters</a> money or <a href="/wiki/Sex" title="Sex">whatever</a> <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">else</a> they want in exchange. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Blaming_the_victim">Blaming the victim</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Blaming the victim">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Victim_blaming" class="mw-redirect" title="Victim blaming">Victim blaming</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/New_Thought" title="New Thought">New Thought</a> and related <a href="/wiki/Law_of_attraction" title="Law of attraction">Law of attraction</a> both try to use the power of the mind to influence events, and people who cannot put right whatever is wrong in their lives are <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">blamed</a> for incorrect thinking. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Publication_bias">Publication bias</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Publication bias">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Publication_bias" title="Publication bias">Publication bias</a></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Scientists have been investigating PK since the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century, but with little success at demonstrating that anyone can move even a feather without trickery involving something as simple and obvious as blowing on objects to move them.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">— <i><a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Dictionary" title="The Skeptic's Dictionary">The Skeptic's Dictionary</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-skepdic_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skepdic-2">[2]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Parapsychologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Parapsychologist">Parapsychologists</a> have written that psychokinesis has been proven in experiments with subjects influencing the output of a <a href="/wiki/Random" class="mw-redirect" title="Random">random</a> number generator. In an investigation of 380 studies, a group of scientists (Bösch <i>et al</i>, 2006) have written a <a href="/wiki/Meta-analysis" title="Meta-analysis">meta-analysis</a> on the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-bosch_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bosch-3">[3]</a></sup> In their paper they wrote "statistical significance of the overall database provides no directive as to whether the phenomenon is genuine or not" and came to the conclusion that "<a href="/wiki/Publication_bias" title="Publication bias">publication bias</a> appears to be the easiest and most encompassing explanation for the primary findings of the meta-analysis."<sup id="cite_ref-bosch_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bosch-3">[3]</a></sup> So contrary to what you might read in a parapsychology book, psychokinesis has not been <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientifically</a> proven. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Quantum_mechanics_or_vague">Quantum mechanics or vague</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Quantum mechanics or vague">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Quantum_woo" title="Quantum woo">Quantum woo</a></div> <p>Sometimes purveyors of telekinesis claim that <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a> somehow proves that <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> affects <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, though there is no proof. </p><p>Their idea is based on misunderstanding a rather controversial version of the <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation" class="mw-redirect" title="Copenhagen interpretation">Copenhagen interpretation</a>, ignoring that there are many competing interpretations of quantum mechanics. </p><p>Other times proponents just rely on <a href="/wiki/Goddidit" class="mw-redirect" title="Goddidit">God does it</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magic" title="Magic">Magic does it</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">the paranormal does it</a>, etc. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="As_the_stuff_of_horror_movies">As the stuff of horror movies</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: As the stuff of horror movies">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Most people's knowledge of psychokinesis comes either from stage <a href="/wiki/Magician" class="mw-redirect" title="Magician">magician</a> and woomeister <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a>, or from <a href="/wiki/Hollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Hollywood">Hollywood</a>. In particular, horror novels and films like Stephen King's <i>Carrie</i> and David Cronenberg's <i>Scanners</i> love this trope; after all, what defense do you have from someone who can pop your skull with his or her mind?<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[note 1]</a></sup> Films like these inadvertently provide some of the best evidence there is on why psychokinesis doesn't exist — if it did, somebody, be it a defense contractor or an angry teenage girl, would have figured out how to use it to kill people. (Or maybe it <i>does</i> exist and <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">they just hushed it up</a>. <a href="/wiki/JAQing_off" class="mw-redirect" title="JAQing off">Hey, just asking questions is all.</a>) </p><p>Psychokinesis is also common in fiction of other genres, such as in Roald Dahl's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Matilda (novel)">Matilda</a></i> and its adaptions. However, this is not evidence for its existence in the real world. Telekinesis works well in escapist fiction in part because the reader has no real experience with it. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_woo" title="Quantum woo">Quantum woo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Precognition" title="Precognition">Precognition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychic" title="Psychic">Psychic</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1498/">The case of the disappearing teaspoons</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ed5015.tripod.com/PaTelekinesis115.htm">TELEKINESIS Psychokinesis investigated</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.livescience.com/28119-telekinesis.html">Telekinesis: Facts About Mind Over Matter</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jamesaconrad.com/TK/tklab.html">A guy who wants the government to give him "100 BILLION US DOLLARS" to research psychokinesis</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychokinesis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/TK" class="mw-redirect" title="TK">the Conservapedia sysop of the same name</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-skepdic-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-skepdic_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-skepdic_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skepdic.com/kinesis.html">psychokinesis (PK)</a> The Skeptic's Dictionary</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bosch-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bosch_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bosch_3-1">3.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deanradin.com/evidence/Bosch2006RNGMetaFull.pdf">Examining Psychokinesis: The Interaction of Human Intention with Random Number Generators. 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