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There are no significant results from parapsychologists who are aware of physics. Instead, we have results from parapsychologists that claim statistical significance that have obviously defective experimental design and/or (usually and) turn out to be unreplicable.
That is, you describe sophisticated parapsychologists but the prominent results are from unsophisticated ones.
Cite?
ETA: Bem, for example, whose study initiated this discussion has a BA and did graduate work in physics.