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The author concludes that ESP is a myth because there is an instance of a researcher falsifying reports of ESP.

The author takes a lack of support for a certain researcher’s findings on ESP to constitute proof that the entire phenomenon is fake. However, a lack of support for a conclusion does not show that the opposite of the conclusion is true. What if all other ESP research were accurately reported? The author never examined other research or findings to show that the phenomenon is fake, so his conclusion is unsupported.

The author’s mention of the researcher does not constitute a personal attack, as he is simply reporting the falsification of data and not making a statement about the researcher’s values or integrity.

The author does not use the general public’s belief as support for his conclusion; the fact that ESP is widely believed in is stated as context for the argument. Instead, the author claims that ESP is a myth because one researcher’s data was falsified.

The author examines experimental evidence as one avenue of proving ESP and uses a lack of experimental evidence as proof against ESP. Even though the author focuses on experimental evidence, he never claims that the only way to prove ESP would be through experimental evidence.

The author mentions the researcher’s grant to show their motivation for falsifying the data, but does not use this fact to draw any conclusion about all scientists producing grant-based research.

The author applied this researcher’s deceit to all other ESP experiments. He didn’t disprove that all other ESP research was methodologically sound and accurately reported, yet his conclusion makes this generalization about the entire field based on one researcher’s lies.

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