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The fortune-teller concludes that some people must possess ESP. Her reasoning is that, despite many attempts to do so, it has not yet been scientifically proven that ESP does not exist.

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of mistaking an unsupported conclusion for a false conclusion. The fortune-teller says that we don’t have enough support to conclude that ESP doesn’t exist. That tells us that ESP could exist, not that it must exist. Future research could prove that ESP doesn’t exist.

This is valid reasoning, so it can’t be the flaw in the argument.

This can’t be the flaw, because the fortune-teller introduces her citation of the number of attempts as a factor with “furthermore.” This indicates that the previous sentence provided a distinct factor (namely, that ESP has not been scientifically disproven).

There’s no particular reason to think that the scientific studies reached inaccurate conclusions.

This can’t be the flaw, since the author doesn’t take it for granted. If anything, she seems to not believe this, because she acknowledges that it has been proven that some self-proclaimed psychics are frauds.

The fortune-teller alleges that it has not yet been proven that a conclusion (the existence of ESP) is false, so therefore it must be true. But this is a mistake; future investigation could show that ESP doesn’t exist.

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