Murray Gell-Mann is a Nobel Laureate in physics and perhaps one of the nations greatest scientist. As a scientist he also is a skeptic of unexplainable phenomena such as mystical experience. However being a person also concerned with the complexity of the universe he is also against just dismissing such matters out of hands. Below is an excerpt from his book "The Quark and the Jaguar" he chides skeptics for being all too ready to dismiss such accounts. He also provides an example (not given here) of someone who passed the Amzing Randi's validity test for unexplainable phenomena. Randi is a magigician who specializes in exposing frauds and hucksters. But the person who Gell Mann alludes to could succesfully identify an artist of a type of music who just by looking a record grooves. (probably not too many people who have such 33rpms around)

Gell Mann:

There is a vague sense of disappointment I feel when reading the Skeptical Inquirer. I experience a lack of suspense.  Nearly everything that is discussed in the journal winds up being debunked. Moreover, many authors seem to feel that they have to explain away every last case, even though in the real world an investigation of anything complex usually leaves a few matters cloudy. I am it is true delighted to see psychic surgery and levitation through meditation debunked (many aurobindians may quibble here - rc).  But I do think a slight redefinition of the mission would help the organization. I beleive the real mission of the organization is to encourage the skeptikal and scientific examination of mysterious reports especially those which seem to challange the laws of science, but without making use of the label paranormal, with its implication that debunking is required. Many of the phenomena will prove to be phoney, or  have very prosaic explanations, but a few may turn out to be genuine and interesting as well. The concept of the paranormal does not seem to me to be a helpful one; and the debunking spirit, while it is entirely appropriate for most subjects involved, is not always a perfectly satisfactory approach ...