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Comment author: wedrifid 24 September 2011 10:43:08PM 2 points [-]

Sure, if you find that people can telekinetically influence the future, a similar experimental protocol is likely to produce equally good results for telekinetically influencing the past. Of which I am less tempted to say, "How amazing! The power of the mind is not bound by time or causality!" and more inclined to say, "Bad statistics are time-symmetrical."

That doesn't actually strike me as all that much extra improbability. A whole bunch of the mechanisms would allow both!