> Lots of people have. Lots and LOTS of people have. There is a huge mass of legitimate, reproduced, supported research done on every single one of the things Stephen mentioned. Some of them - alchemy, perpetual motion, crop circles - don't get investigated much nowadays because there's simply no point. Impossible, Impossible, hoax, in that order. How do I know this? Because legions of dedicated scientists have already done this research you call for and already demonstrated that.

Not much I can add to Darien and Stephen, here, except a link to one of those lots and lots of people who've done research on that list of Stephen's. I'm sure Darien intended to mention it but forgot because of too much late. :-}