what to believe? - or: science's other side

(if you begin to read this; please also read the last line)

telepathy, psychokinesis, reincarnation, mediumship, ghosts, mind-body dualism and so forth ; i was raised (combination of media, school, parents, etc) with the idea that such ideas are nonsense in this scientific age.

Yet... some months ago i began seeing the other side of science: scientists who seriously study such phenomena and think rejecting them as ''nonsense'' is true nonsense... actually, a lot of scientists who study the phenomena believe in their plausibility. (Now, i'm not saying there is satisfying evidence for the above phenomena. BUT: for some there is, which makes dismissing the whole group harder.)

Of course i am crazy and unable to judge statistics, i myself just like words and ideas, sometimes a moderate amount of feelings, but here is a man who knows statistics and is led to reject rejecting psi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_O9Qiwqew

A site full of serious articles by serious people seriously defending serious mentality-materiality dualism... good stuf:
www.newdualism.org

An article reviewing evidence of psi:
http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/psy1.html

Is that too far out? Then try read something simple, though it will surely amaze:
http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/staring/sensoryclues_abs.html
author's website: www.sheldrake.org

ok, now all science-type people reading this think: ''we know fedde, he's just a crazy alpha convinced by ideas. Statistically this is all nonsense and serious scientists will surely reject such rubbish''. Well, here's a professor in statistics who has reviewed studies:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jutts/azpsi.html ; here website (also more articles on the subject): http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~utts/

wanna read something interesting? read this: http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_19_1_keil.pdf

as always: i'm highly interested in what you think and in feedback, thanks in advance. :)

edited to add this q/a on parapsychology: http://www.parapsych.org/faq_file1.html

i'm not trying to convince anybody (can't even say i'm 100% convinced myself (100% convinced is always dangerous, though i admit i have a few philosophical points i'd be prepared to defend until death)) again: i don't want you to read this post and think all the above phenomena are true; i just want you to rethink why you think they are untrue or true.

peace,
fedde