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The Parapsychological Association regards the results of parapsychologists ' experiments as having demonstrated the existence of some forms of psychic abilities, and proponents of parapsychology have seen it as an " embryo science ", a " frontier science of the mind ", and a " frontier discipline for advancing knowledge ".

However, critics state that methodological flaws can explain any apparent experimental successes and the status of parapsychology as a science has been vigorously disputed.

Many scientists regard the discipline as pseudoscience, saying that parapsychologists continue investigation despite not having demonstrated conclusive evidence of psychic abilities in more than a century of research.

Brian David Josephson and some other proponents of parapsychology have spoken of " irrational attacks on parapsychology " which stem from the difficulties of " putting these phenomena into our present system of the universe ".