A simple way to analyse why people are sceptical about such claims is to look at it a little differently.
If you have two computers in a room that do not have cables connecting them together or wifi capacity,...
Can the two computers send information between each another?
If they are stand-alone units then the likelihood of them being able to transfer data between each other is not feasible, after all to get around the inability to communicate requires designing a "
Medium". (Not the type that attempts to communicate with "spirits", since that would require a posed non-corporeal non-existent pseudo-manifestation to have physical properties.)
The only way the two computers can communicate is by developing a medium, this means using a cable/fibre connection or wifi.
Speculation:
There is a potential in the future that perhaps non-locality will offer a medium of communication without the need for wave propagation over distance. (Very handy in the situation of removing "delays" in regards to distance no longer having to convey a message over time, so landers on Mar's might one day roam around with no delay between them and Earth control.)
Non-locality used in this manner is definitely something to be looked at when designing a Quibit[Q-bit] Computer.
The application of Non-locality as a medium for data transmission is obviously an "Artificial Construct", it's not something that would naturally occur.
Thus any super-natural event of Telepathy is ruled out. (It would and does require Physics, which in turn means using a scientific approach.)
The problem is that we have a myriad of people all claiming various things to support there notions, not all of them are going to be right, some in fact are going to be making it up, others are just going to be delusional and others still are just misinterpreting what has been occurring to them which indeed might have an artificial origin.
In the instance of Mind to Mind telepathy, the current mediums are:
- Sound
- Sight
- Taste
- Touch
- Smell
There is the potential for an artificially constructed "6th sense" (albeit an interchangeable vector of potential senses means that it shouldn't really be limited to a number), however it's really just a method of manipulating current senses into inducing
Synesthesia.
I believe in the current direction of cybernetics, the integration of mediums like growing tissue to interconnect with implants or radiological manipulation of tissue can use this method to replace missing capacities or enrich a person with new capacities.
With that the latter (Radiology) is therefore a potential medium for communicating, however it requires adding an artificial bridging mechanism (pre-processing/real-time processing) to make sure that the sensory out manipulated at both ends is observable and understood by the observer. (otherwise what point would there actually be)
With that however long exposure to radiology is likely to be damaging, while it is indeed dielectic radiation, it can still increase biological temperatures beyond their operational temperature and possible impede or accelerate cellular generation. (The reason that mobile phones are deemed "safe" is that it's posed that the blood circulation throughout the body will aid in keeping the temperature down from dangerous levels, however I'm not entirely convinced about it being safe in regards to cellular mitosis. Based upon the notion that energy isn't destroyed, it converts form, if it happens to be a form that cells can work then the potential results can have both positive and negative consequences.)