LOL., that whole global conciousness experiment at princeton is complete bullshit.
They look for fluctuations in random number generators at the time some big event happens.
But they fail to check if these fluctuations also occur when the big event doesnt happen.
This experiment and it claims should make any statistician cry and is a disgrace for the scientific community.
Based on the experiment setup they can never ever claim what they do.
They don't even exclude stuff like power fluctuations that could make a chip produce slightly different values.
There is just sooo much wrong with this particular experiment.
Tenure is a hell of a drug.
On the flip side- if they show no correlation then they can say "nope, no correlation". There is valid scientific reason to investigate "coincidence" thoroughly. Sometimes the dumbest things can turn out to be surprisingly complicated. Who would have imagined before einstein, for example, that the faster you move, the slower time travels in relation to other objects? The universe is full of remarkable things. If your on the faculty forever, might as well spend some time looking into them. :-)