Here's something I've said in various ways many times before but which I feel more strongly than ever.
The real question, boiled down to a few words: "Why are there no good answers?" Here I don't mean in a moral sense (though that is important) but really I mean it in a nitty gritty sense. Why are there no good answers to ANY of the stuff discussed on 300+ episodes of Skeptiko?
Think about it. We have all this stuff:
-UFOs
-Medium communication
-NDEs
-Remote Viewing
-Ghosts
-"Alien Abduction"
-Synchronicity
-Reincarnation
and so on
There are no good answers to any of it. WHY? Well, there are three possible answers:
-The skeptics are right. This stuff does not exist.
-The problem is hard and we just haven't tried hard enough - we need more research, we need funding, etc etc etc
OR
-It is designed this way ON PURPOSE by some power which is able to regulate ALL of these fields of study. All these fields dance just out of reach. They drive you mad. There is plenty of evidence but there is no proof. How can this be? Answer: because it is done ON PURPOSE.
In all these fields, people talk about phenomena. This is not phenomena. It is a series of oblique messages from an intelligence. This intelligence desires plausible deniability and, furthermore, this intelligence knows EXACTLY what it can get away with and what it can't. It drops no balls. It makes no mistakes. Who do we know who makes no mistakes? Well, sounds to me like God (I know that word is loaded with baggage but I have no other word). I am not saying that there aren't separate entities behind these various things but I am saying that they are regulated.
There is no other answer. The "we need to try harder" idea cannot be true across such a wide variety of things and over such an extended period of time.
Sorry to rant. :) The intelligence behind this does not want us to solve these problems (at least not yet). He wants us to think about them. It is all a game.
A really excellent post:
http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/cat-and-string.html