The recent hit podcast The Telepathy Tapes gives a fascinating description of what appear to be telepathic abilities in non-speaking autistic children. How to understand this phenomenon is a vital question, but unfortunately, one that most mainstream scientists and journalists will likely never ask. Instead, most will ignore it while a few will dismiss it, which is what we saw in early March with the publication of “The Telepathy Trap” in The Atlantic.
But such dismissals are still incredibly important. They are a form of engagement, and they demonstrate just how confused, how lost at sea, the mainstream scientific community is when it comes to such questions. But not only that — the flaws in their logic can be doorways for our own thinking, bringing us deeper into the phenomenon and, in the process, helping us to better understand it.
This is a recording of an article from March 15th, 2025. You can find the written version of the article here.
Yes, writers have to eat, but paywalls just punish low-income people, and why shouldn’t they have access to the writing and ideas they want?
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