What I meant by documented is that magick has never been scientifically documented; there has only been documentation defrauding it. No one has ever proven a psychic ability or ability to perform telekinesis or some power like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kulagina"According to reports from the Soviet Union, forty scientists, two of whom were Nobel laureates, studied Kulagina.[6]"
It's not that it hasn't been documented in scientific experiments. The problem is found within the same webpage:
"Many skeptical individuals and organizations, such as the James Randi Educational Foundation and the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims on the Paranormal (CICAP) express strong skepticism regarding the truth of these claims. It is noted that the long preparation times and uncontrolled environments (such as hotel rooms) in which the experiments took place left much potential for trickery.[10] Skeptics have argued that many of Kulagina's feats could easily be performed by one practiced in sleight of hand, through means such as cleverly concealed or disguised threads, small pieces of magnetic metal, or mirrors.[11] They further point to the fact that no sleight of hand experts appear to have ever been present during experiments, and that the Cold War-era Soviet Union had an obvious motive for falsifying or exaggerating results in the potential propaganda value in appearing to win a "Psi Race" analogous to the concurrent Space Race or arms race.[citation needed]"
An experiment is (or many many experiments are) run by
scientists, who document their efforts the same as they would any other experiment. After they're done, they publish their findings the same as always. After this is done, someone else entirely, who had nothing to do with the experiments yet who claims to have some sort of authority on the matter (whether claiming to be scientists, or professors, or studious persons of whatever background, or stage magicians), comes along and seem to cast so much "doubt" on the experiments, through nothing more than offering alternative explanations or outright lying about things that supposedly happened during the experiments, that society at large listens to the naysayers and let the matter be swept from their minds. Scientists found Facts; disbelievers made Claims. Yet it is the loudest voice, not the most accurate voice, which controls the perceptions of society.
It's not that magical/psychic phenomenon haven't been scientifically documented; it's that materialistic scientists/wanna-bes hold so much sway over public opinion that any member of our so-called modern society is belittled when they attempt to believe in spirits and faeries and whatnot. And there's a reason for this; history. Scientists were very influential in proving that many superstitions were invalid, and thus they came to the conclusion that ALL metaphysical believes are superstitions, and continually try to tell society so.
~Steve
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