Many snarky titles for this have occurred to me. I choose none of them.

[joculum]

I suppose that the folks whom I have christened the New Agnostics take seriously the antique maxim, “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean that no one is plotting against you.” The cognitive value of hallucinatory states may be close to zero, but if such states sometimes yield verifiable perceptions that should not be possible, there is a set of data that these people deem worthy of investigation. The fact that the investigatory field is already clogged with cranks, charlatans and self-deluded innocents does not preclude the possibility of developing a methodology that will stand up to critique from all directions, like any other analytical method.