From Echo Gonzalez, Chicago, Illinois, US
Rowan Hooper was disappointed by talks at the International Dream Conference (14 July, p 10). I share his sceptical opinion of parapsychology. But isn't it just as dangerous to dismiss hypotheses simply because they are difficult or impossible to prove via the scientific method?
Say someone has anecdotal dream-related experiences that cannot be explained yet by science. If they find, on attempting to discuss these, that the scientific community's only response is to dismiss this realm of study as head-shakingly laughable, that person is more likely to seek answers in pseudoscience. That is dangerous.
