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

Author
Jimmy Akin
Published
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://sqpn.com/2025/08/feeling-the-future-precognition-daryl-bem-psi-research/

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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