Feeling the Future (Precognition, Daryl Bem, Psi Research)

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MYS377: Can we sense the future—before it happens? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli confront the scientific chaos sparked by Daryl Bem’s mind-bending 2011 precognition study and unpack the data, the fury, and what it all means.
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Links for this episode:
- Daryl Bem (Psi Encyclopedia)
- Feeling the Future Experiments (Psi Encyclopedia)
- Daryl Bem’s 2011 “Feeling the Future” article
- 2011 critique of “Feeling the Future”
- Bem et al. 2011 follow-up on analyzing data
- 2016 Replication article
- Slate’s “Science Is Broken” article
- Larry Dossey’s “Why Are Scientists Afraid of Daryl Bem?” article
- Kate Nussenbaum’s Bem and “Broken Science” article
- Rational Wiki article
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