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Science can't explain everything. Things like déjà vu, the placebo effect and many other phenomena still make scientists scratch their heads and wonder what’s going on.

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Sources:

The Nature Of Deja Vu:
http://www.theparanormalsociety.org/l...

“The term déjà vu comes from the French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all."

Placebos Work Even if You Know They’re Fake: But How?:
http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/27...

“Physicians have long believed that some form of deception is essential to the placebo effect: after all, if you tell people that you’re giving them a fake drug, why would they respond by getting better?"

The Dancing Plague of 1518:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28371/...

“Perhaps the very first authentic rave, the Dancing Plague of 1518 is one of the most bizarre incidents you'll ever read about. It all started, well, back in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, France."

Easter Island:
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/...

“Rapa Nui’s mysterious moai statues stand in silence but speak volumes about the achievements of their creators. The stone blocks, carved into head-and-torso figures, average 13 feet (4 meters) tall and 14 tons."

The World’s Biggest Mysteries Scientists Still Can’t Solve:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci...

“While Harry Houdini prided himself on leaving audiences from around the world mystified at his illusions and escapes, modern science has revealed how he accomplished many of his spectacles of grandeur."

Why Real-life Ghost Hunters Hate “Ghost Hunters”:
http://www.salon.com/2010/10/30/ghost...

“In butchered Italian, Nick Groff tells the ghosts of Poveglia, a creepy island off the coast of Venice, Italy, to “use his energy.” A faint rap is heard. Zak Bagans, his fellow ghost hunter, hunches over and grabs his stomach."

Do Scientists Fear the Paranormal?:
http://news.discovery.com/human/psych...

“The question has been asked for decades: why haven’t psychic powers been proven yet? Psychics have been studied for decades, both in and out of the laboratory, yet the scientific community (and the public at large) remains unconvinced."

What Skepticism Reveals About Science:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...

“The postmodernist belief in the relativism of truth, coupled to the clicker culture of mass media where attention spans are measured in New York minutes, leaves us with a bewildering array of truth claims packaged in infotainment units."

Freeman Dyson, Global Warming, ESP And The Fun Of Being “Bunkrapt":
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/c...

“Should a scientist who believes in extrasensory perception—the ability to read minds, intuit the future and so on—be taken seriously?"

Lone Voices Special: Take Nobody’s Word For It:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...

“You don’t come across many Nobel prizewinners who believe in the paranormal, but Brian Josephson is one of them."

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