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On the topic of studies and the likes: parapsychological research is in fact relatively inconclusive and dubious, but so is the research in many other fields (medicine, drugs, psychology, etc.). If people applied the same scepticism and scrutiny that they do to psi-research to a field like psychiatry for example, the whole thing would be shut down tomorrow -but that's an indictment against 'science' in general, not a validation of parapsychological research.
If people really want to prove the existence of supermundane phenomena, they need to step outside of the whole research paradigm and step into the realm of plain and simple demonstrations. A musician validates his skill by playing an instrument, a martial artist validates his skill by knocking someone out, a weightlifter validates his skill by lifting heavy weights; no scientific research needed.
Of course the problem is that most people don't have psychic abilities, nor do they know how to acquire them hence there's virtually no genuine demonstrations available (although there are some that at least have a smidgen of credibility). Imagine if we had a hundred John Chang's making YouTube videos, this whole debate would be over in a month -but no such luck of course.