In 2011, Cornell psychologist Daryl Bem claimed something outrageous: that people can sense future events before they happen. His paper, “Feeling the Future,” published in a top psychology journal, produced statistically undeniable evidence—far beyond chance. The backlash was immediate and intense.

In this episode, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack what Bem did, how his 9 experiments worked, why his results passed replication, and why skeptics still couldn’t accept the findings.

Is science broken—or just unwilling to face the data?

https://mysterious.fm/377

Further Resources:
• Daryl Bem (Psi Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/daryl-bem
• Feeling the Future Experiments (Psi Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/feeling-future-precognition-experiments
• Daryl Bem’s 2011 “Feeling the Future” article: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/psp-a0021524.pdf
• 2011 critique of “Feeling the Future”: https://www.ejwagenmakers.com/2011/Bem6.pdf
• Bem et al. 2011 follow-up on analyzing data: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qvgyjfrcsg9rd0bvfiatf/Bem2011.pdf?rlkey=nmnk52ojuc2gf4f2xnrhtwn2u&e=1&dl=0
• 2016 Replication article: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4706048/pdf/f1000research-4-8494.pdf
• Slate’s “Science Is Broken” article: https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html
• Larry Dossey’s “Why Are Scientists Afraid of Daryl Bem?” article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319186439_Why_Are_Scientists_Afraid_of_Daryl_Bem
• Kate Nussenbaum’s Bem and “Broken Science” article: https://medium.com/@katenuss/discovery-without-theory-thoughts-on-daryl-bem-and-broken-science-9fdc0ab9d6d7
• Rational Wiki article: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Feeling_the_Future

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