Couldn't help but jump in here. I'm surprised at how weak this post was, just wanted to point out why in detail.
Psi does violate some laws in physics. One of these is the Inverse-square law. In all circumstances observed in physics the strength of the signal must get weaker as the receiver travels further from the transmitter, but in parapsychology experiments and according to psychics this is not the case - psi can travel any distance without becoming weaker, and the distance having no influence on the results. This is unheard of in physics.
There is no law of physics called "the" inverse-square law, i.e. no mandate that any particular laws of physics
must be consistent with the inverse-square law - there are only laws of physics which
happen to be consistent with this law. So, which of those laws, precisely, is being violated?
In other words, your statement is merely one of vague presupposition/assumption/induction, not an identification of any actual violation of any actual law of physics. Let's accept for argument's sake that all laws of physics known or accepted so far relating to signal strength
do happen to involve an inverse-square relationship between distance and signal strength. OK, fine. So what?
Which of these laws is being violated by any hypothetical
new law(s) entailed by psi, which happen(s)
not to involve an inverse-square relationship? Be specific!
Psychokinesis violates the law of conservation of energy etc.
More vagueness. In what way does it violate the law of conservation of energy?
Physicist Mario Bunge covers some of this:
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
Precognition violates the principle of antecedence ("causality"), according to which the effect does not happen before the cause.
Sorry, this doesn't cut it either. This is not a law of physics, it is a metaphysical assumption.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
Psychokinesis violates the principle of conservation of energy
See above.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
as well as the postulate that mind cannot act directly on matter.
Again, not a law of physics, but a metaphysical assumption.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
(If it did no experimenter could trust his own readings of his instruments.)
Chris has responded to this perfectly already.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
Telepathy and precognition are incompatible with the epistemological principle according to which the gaining of factual knowledge requires sense perception at some point.
Again, not a law of physics. Here Mario even acknowledges as much - that this is not a law of physics, but an epistemological principle - i.e. another philosophical assumption.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
Parapsychology makes no use of any knowledge gained in other fields, such as physics and physiological psychology.
Absurd on its face. To take a couple of small examples, parapsychological experiments often make use of hardware RNGs, which were developed through knowledge gained in the field of physics, and of methods of measuring skin conductance which use knowledge from the field of physiological psychology.
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
Moreover, its hypotheses are inconsistent with some basic assumptions of factual science.
Again, I don't see any specific law of physics being violated here, merely a vague reference to inconsistent "assumptions".
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
In particular, the very idea of a disembodied mental entity is incompatible with physiological psychology
Still waiting for a specific violation of a specific law of physics; this remains hopelessly vague and remains based in assumptions...
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
and the claim that signals can be transmitted across space without fading with distance is inconsistent with physics.
See above. Still waiting for a specific violation of a specific law of physics on this one...
Mario Bunge as quoted by Sewer Rat said:
The claim that quantum mechanics allows for the possibility of mental power influencing randomizers — an alleged case of micro-PK — is ludicrous since that theory respects the said conservation principles, and it deals exclusively with physical things.
Still no word on how, specifically, micro-PK violates the law of conservation of energy...
There's simply nothing here.
Edited to add a note on there being no "mandatory" law of inverse-squares, only individual laws of physics which happen to follow it.