This scientific question gets brought up a lot, so here's the deal:
The system isn't pulled from thin air. It's taken from NLP studies, cognitive sciences, and previous forms of "photoreading" that aren't as good. To be honest, Photoreading isn't the only version out there of it's kind, it's just the best one. It's really not a question of it works anymore, and that's why it irks me that it still comes out. It's a question of did YOU get it to work?
For scientific research, do a search on the forum for "photoreading abstracts" because I think SDSub or someone like that found a whole BUNCH of 'em and compiled them into one post. There's a lot of proof.
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com ("You can't HANDLE the truth.")