ESP and Bayes at the Times 

 You say you wanted an update on that ESP paper where a professor of psychology &#8220;time-reversed&#8221; some classic experiments? The New York Times  has you covered . Want to see more discussion of null hypotheses and Bayesian analysis in the NYT? Also covered: 

 
   Many statisticians say that conventional social-science techniques for analyzing data make an assumption that is disingenuous and ultimately self-deceiving: that researchers know nothing about the probability of the so-called null hypothesis. 
 

 The  so-called  null hypothesis? Take that, Fisher! Oh, there&#8217;s more: 

 
   Instead, these statisticians prefer a technique called Bayesian analysis, which seeks to determine whether the outcome of a particular experiment &#8220;changes the odds that a hypothesis is true&#8221;&#8230; 
 

 Also, the last paragraph of the story seems  very  relevant: 

 
   So far, at least three efforts to replicate the experiments have failed.