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RE: Get rich by predicting the future... no really, it's all in a published paper
As I said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. PSI is at odds with everything we understand about physics and the way the brain works, so it needs a working theory that makes testable predictions.
The slogan "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" generally makes sense. However, perhaps it is not such an extraordinary claim? One way to look at this is to think of PSI as a natural phenomena that has always existed. This line of reasoning has been explored by Rupert Sheldrake who has suggested in many experiments that PSI is a natural and not extraordinary phenomena. As evidence he points to the peculiar finding that people often know when someone is calling them on the phone or dogs know when their owner comes back home. These kinds of experiments may seem trivial, but they cannot be explained away at present as they have been replicated numerous times. For more information see his book The Science Delusion.
For present physics this may indeed seem hard to explain. But that is mostly true for classical physics. In quantum physics these kinds of phenomena are not so strange at all: instantaneous transfer of information, energy out of "nothing", even time in physics is not required to move only in one direction (as time is not found in the equations governing our reality (if I am wrong here, please correct me)).
Physics is constantly changing as can be seen through our history. It is only natural that our current way of understanding the world will be obsolete in a century. So we should be open for these kinds of things.