Joe,

I'm not familiar with it - although at your mention, I did some looking into it and so I have a very rough idea of what it is.

I tend towards being skeptical of claims of telepathic communication in general, for a couple reasons. First, if we define telepathy as brain-to-brain communication that does not involve the senses, then I am very skeptical that anything like that exists in general. It would take an overwhelming amount of very airtight evidence to convince me of something like that - although it would take less evidence to convince me that there was something intresting to investigate.

Second, I'm familiar with most of the experimental and statistical methodologies in the sciences that have been used to demonstrate claims of extra-sensory abilities. I'm well versed in the methodological fallibility of my field (I have my PhD in Social Psychology). The number of things that you have to address when using statistically-based methods, to make an airtight case, is very high.

In fact one early bit that was ultimately cut from this article was on Daryl Bem's 2011 paper which claimed to prove that humans had a mild ability to predict the future at rates slightly above chance. His paper was unimpeachable by the standards of that time--which wound up throwing psychology into a deep crisis for a decade as they re-examined all of their methodological practices and started finding really, really deep flaws in methods they had been employing for decades.

Also, as an aside - while I'm not certain, I've skimmed your writing and I'm pretty sure you're familiar with the academic side of these things, already.

I'm happy to talk about this further because I find these things fascinating. I did just devote an entire article to it, after all. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on communication between animals living in large groups. I don't doubt that such communication happens - I'm skeptical that it is mediated by anything other than the senses, but animals employ their senses in different ways than we do, and also have different senses entirely, so they're always a great point of discussion.