Newton wrote MORE on alchemy than on physics. That simple fact is a black swan begging for understanding. Clearly, he would not have spent thousands of hours on nothing with no results whatsoever.

Your posting is interesting in this regard, but it lacks something important: citations of those scientific studies.

Since I believe that critics should provide solutions, here are my contributions of evidence:

(1) the book Proof of Heaven. This was written by Harvard professor and neuroscientist Eben Alexander, MD. He was an atheist prior to his near-death experience (NDE), which occurred during a week-long coma. He details evidence obtained whilst "out of the body" which others have acknowledged would have been physically impossible for him to perceive with his body while on the operating table,

(2) Others have made similar reports of physically impossible observations, which have stunned operating theater personnel.

There are multiple websites offering databases of NDE experiences--some created or run by medical doctors,

(3) my personal experience, about half a century ago. I had been wondering if I was, in fact, something other than a body. The answer came during meditation, when "I"--as a circular visual field of awareness--found myself drifting through the serving line at my college cafeteria, which was located hundreds of feet away from the basement where I was meditating, and above ground. I "saw" yellow curdled stuff being scooped up and placed onto plates. Then I returned to the body and, matter-of-factly, my mind said "it's scrambled eggs for breakfast."

THEN I realized the magnitude of what had happened. I rushed to the cafeteria where, indeed, this was being served. However, my skeptical intellect kicked in. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

I checked the breakfast serving schedule, and scrambled eggs were served thrice per week. Greatly disappointed, I resigned myself to the conclusion that this had been a vivid hallucination.

Whatever (or whomever) was trying to show me something wasn't satisfied with that outcome. Weeks later, I had an identical experence, except at dinner time. This time, it was chili.

As a lover of chili who rarely got to enjoy it, I immediately realized that THIS incident could resolve the matter. This time, after rushing to the cafeteria and "seeing" chili being served--this time with my physical eyes--I asked to see the cook. I asked her if there was a schedule for serving chili. "No." she said, "we only serve it the next day when we have enough ground beef left over from sloppy joes."

This outcome satisfied my skeptical intellect. I should also note that never in my hundreds of meditations in that basement did I ever smell food, and also that never again have I had such an experience.

Those who have predetermined that this is "impossible"--being fundamantalists cut from the same cloth as religious fundamentalists, albeit with very different beliefs-to-which-evidence-must comport--will say that I am lying, that the second incident was a wild coincidence, or other such.

I have other personal anecdotes in this regard, such as the time I was given four of the six winning lottery numbers, proven at least to my certainty by my winning of money on each purchased ticket. (I failed to guess the other two numbers, which would have greatly increased the winnings.)

Admittedly, anecdotal evidence is the weakest kind, even though it is used to convict people of felonies in court. But no such evidence will convince those who are unwilling to be persuaded. It is ever so.