IAI.TV offers an article summary sure to raise some hackles: The philosophy of materialism has dominated theoretical physics and neuroscience for decades. In this article, theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that scientific gatekeeping of alternatives to materialism is the most dangerous type of pseudoscience. To make progress, he argues, we need to examine what we don’t understand in our current theories. “Materialism is holding science back,” September 16, 2025 Yes. Challenges to a materialist view of, say, human consciousness, have always and only been phrased in terms of the shortcomings of current materialist theories. Better ones, we are assured, are in the pipeline… indefinitely. The underlying premise is never questioned. And now for that very hot button Àlex Gómez-Marín goes on to raise — in the very venue that hosts, say, Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder — the validity of telepathy research: Totally debunked, you say? Nope: Half a century ago, a research letter entitled “Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding” was published in Nature. The piece was a remarkable anomaly in the …