Article: Heroic Skeptical Odysseys Into Parapsychology - Parapsychologists complain that skeptics are narrow and close minded. It's actually parapsychologists who refuse to admit evidence against them. Learn about the spectrum of the paranormal & 8 tests skeptics use to evaluate paranormal claims. Skeptical scientists self-organized to contest the flood of New Age thinking that began in US during the mid 1970s. They were funded by neither corporations, the state or universities.