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While he pokes fun at his “extracurricular world-changing snacktivities” and exciting hobbies by citing them as “witchcraft, telekinesis, and ESP,” in truth, Gillespie is incredibly modest about his accomplishments...
...etymological examination further exposes meat as a decidedly non-gender-neutral term. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "meat," in its slang usage, can refer to “the human body (esp. a woman’s body) regarded as an instrument of sexual pleasure,” as well as both female and male genitalia. The less academic, but no less authoritative Urban Dictionary defines meat as both sexual intercourse (with the charming example “I’d like to meet Jessica Alba and then meat her”) and as a derogatory term...
Moulton said null results have made previous ESP research difficult to interpret, but that he wanted to design an experiment that would give information independent of whether or not it produced null results...
When asked why people believe in ESP, Moulton said he believes that cognitive biases can result in people interpreting events in a paranormal...
...acknowledged that while null results can never be used to conclusively prove that ESP does not exist, he was glad to have done his part toward settling the age-old debate...