Matthew C -
You are advocating nonreductionism and psi at the same time.
Supposing that you are right requires us to suppose that there is both a powerful argument against reductionism, and a powerful argument in favor of psi.
Supposing that you are a crank requires only one argument, and one with a much higher prior.
In other words, if you were advocating one outrageous theory, someone might listen. The fact that you are advocating two simultaneously makes dismissing all of your claims, without reading the book you recommend, the logical response. We thus don’t have to read it to have a rational basis to dismiss it.
EO Wilson has a section in his autobiography, /Naturalist/, on what Gould and Lewontin did after the publication of Wilson’s /Sociobiology/. They formed a study group, which met every week to criticize Sociobiology, then after a few months, published their results.
The kicker is that they held their meetings about a 30-second walk from Wilson’s office in Harvard—but never told him about them.
This proves to me that science and truth never were their primary concern.