Prof. Emeritus of Psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell University has published a parapsychology paper in a mainstream psychology journal. Bem’s paper suggests that future events can affect participants’ performance on well-known psychological tasks. The work has received lots of media attention.

Bem, D.J. (2011). Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 407-425.

Download a draft of the article here :

http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf

The final paper will soon appear here :

http://content.apa.org/journals/psp

Replication package :

http://dbem.ws/psistuff

If you attempt a replication, please register it here :

http://www.richardwiseman.com/BemReplications.html

Bem’s page

http://dbem.ws/

Media attention

October

Feeling the Future, by Greg (DailyGrail, 10/09/10)

http://www.dailygrail.com/Mind-Mysteries/2010/9/Feeling-the-Future

Have scientists finally discovered evidence for psychic phenomena ?! By Melissa Burkley (Psychology Today, 11/10/10)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-social-thinker/201010/have-scientists-finally-discovered-evidence-psychic-phenomena

Precognitive adaptations – or – Can Extroverts predict where the porn will be? By Robert Kurzban (Evolutionary Psychology, 15/10/10)

http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2010/10/precognitive-adaptations-or-can-extroverts-predict-where-the-porn-will-be/

“Feeling the Future”: Psi vs Science, by Jason Colavito (JasonColavito.com, 19/10/10)

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2010/10/feeling-the-future-psi-vs-science.html

Scientist finds « proof » of psychic abilities, by Nick Farrell (TechEye.net, 20/10/10)

http://www.techeye.net/science/scientist-finds-proof-of-psychic-abilities

Not so fast with Psychic-Phenomena Research! By Daniel R. Hawes (Psychology Today, 21/10/10)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201010/not-so-fast-psychic-phenomena-research

Why I don’t believe in precognition, by Joachim I. Krueger (Psychology Today, 24/10/10)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/201010/why-i-dont-believe-in-precognition

PSI research: What do these Numbers Really Mean? By Daniel R. Hawes (Psychology Today, 27/10/10)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201010/psi-research-what-do-these-numbers-really-mean

Scientific evidence for psychic powers, by Jerry A. Coyne (Why Evolution is True, 31/10/10)

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/scientific-evidence-for-psychic-powers/

November

*sigh* psi : a rebuttal (Psycasm, 03/11/10)

http://www.labspaces.net/blog/863/_sigh__Psi__A_Rebuttal

Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New Evidence that the Human Mind can Perceive the Future, By Ben Goertzel (H+ Magazine, 4/11/10)

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/precognition-real-cornell-university-lab-releases-powerful-new-evidence-human-mind-can-

Psi-ber plagiarism, by Joachim I. Krueger (Psychology Today, 7/11/10)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/201011/psi-ber-plagiarism

Un article de Bem à paraître sur la précognition, by Circée (Circée, 7/11/10)

http://www.circee.org/+Bem-precognition+.html

Study shows some evidence of human precognitive powers, by Clay Dillow (Popsci, 8/11/10)

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/precognition-research-shows-human-mind-can-perceive-future

Science proves we can see the Future, By Michael Fahey (Kotaku, 11/11/10)

http://kotaku.com/5687716/science-proves-we-can-see-the-future

Is this evidence that we can see the future? By Peter Aldhous (New Scientist, 11/11/10)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-is-this-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future.html

Il futuro “si può sentire”. Uno studio divide gli psicologi, by Giulia Belardelli (la Repubblica.it, 12/11/10)

http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2010/11/12/news/veggenti-9050929/

Psychic Precognition may exist, Cornell study finds, by Cindy Huynh (The Cornell Daily Sun, 12/11/10)

http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/11/12/psychic-precognition-may-exist-cornell-study-finds

Can science prove we’re psychic ? By Alan Boyle (Cosmig Log, 12/11/10)

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/12/5456572-can-science-prove-were-psychic

Dramatic Study shows participants are affected by psychological phenomena from the future, by Christian Jarrett (British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, 12/11/10)

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/11/dramatic-study-shows-participants-are.html

Broken Taboo: A major journal publishes evidence for ESP, by David Berreby (Big Think, 13/11/10)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24951

Feeling the Future – Is Precognition Possible ? By Jonah Lehrer (Wired, 15/11/10)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/

Forscher: Blick in die Zukunft ist möglich, by Robert Czepel (Science.orf.at, 15/11/10)

http://science.orf.at/stories/1668339/

Quand les universitaires étudient la précognition (voyance vers le futur), by Alain Bougearel (Besoin de Savoir, 15/11/10)

http://www.besoindesavoir.com/article/article/id/645463

Psi Research: Here we go again? By Jim Schnabel (Heretical Notions, 17/11/10)

http://hereticalnotions.com/2010/11/17/psi-research-here-we-go-again/

Parapsychology: Lessons from the fringe (NewScientist Opinion, magazine issue 2787, 17/11/10)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827873.100-parapsychology-lessons-from-the-fringe.html

Humans do have psychic powers, study claims, by Heidi Blake (The Telegraph, 18/11/10)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8142192/Humans-do-have-psychic-powers-study-claims.html

Frankly, the Future is all too predictable, by Bryony Gordon (The Telegraph, 19/11/10)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/bryonygordon/8147953/Frankly-the-future-is-all-too-predictable.html

Psychic Powers: Study shows that we can see the future (The Times of India, 19/11/10)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Psychic-powers-Study-shows-we-can-see-the-future/articleshow/6951651.cms

Recent Research: Humans have Supernatural Abilities, by iDroid (ScienceRay, 24/11/10)

http://scienceray.com/biology/ecology/recent-research-humans-have-supernatural-abilities/

Precognition and Porn: new evidence for Psi? By David Sutton (Fortean Times, n°270)

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/4729/precognition_and_porn.html

Batthyány, A. (November 27, 2010). Retrocausal Habituation and Induction of Boredom: A Successful Replication of Bem (2010; Studies 5 and 7). Social Science Research Network: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1715954

Feeling the Future: Room for Improvment, by Seth Roberts (Seth’s blog, 29/11/10)

http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2010/11/29/feeling-the-future-room-for-improvement/

December

Psi Skeptics: if psychologists find signs of ESP, maybe psychologists have a problem, by David Berreby (Big thing, 4/12/10)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/25271

Seeing the Future – Paranormally speaking, by Rosemary Breen (Psychic Revolution, 10/12/10)

http://psychicrevolution.com/paranormal-3.html

Feeling the future – Are results of recent experiments evidence of precognition? By Barry (Personality & Spirituality, 15/12/10)

http://personalityspirituality.net/2010/12/15/feeling-the-future-are-results-of-recent-experiments-evidence-of-precognition/

It’s about time: The Scientific Evidence for Psi Experiences, by Cassandra Vieten (The Huffington Post, 17/12/10)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cassandra-vieten/esp-evidence_b_795366.html

It’s about time: Psi Research at the Tipping Point, by Cassandra Vieten (The Institute of Noetic Sciences, 17/12/10)

http://www.noetic.org/blog/its-about-time-psi-research-at-a-tipping-point/

Can we perceive the future? Interview with Daryl Bem (Or: Psi Investigator: on magic and being a maverick) (New Scientist, 18/12/10)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.700-psi-investigator-on-magic-and-being-a-maverick.html

Greatest science controversies of the year, by Phil Duncan (motherboard.tv, 23/12/10)

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/12/23/greatest-science-controversies-of-the-year

Responding to the Debate, Psi Research at a Tipping point, by Casandra Vieten (IONS, 27/12/10)

http://www.noetic.org/blog/responding-to-the-debate-psi-research-at-a-tipping/

January 2011

Could it be? Spooky experiments that ‘see’ the future, by Robert Krulwich (NPR, 04/01/11)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/01/04/132622672/could-it-be-spooky-experiments-that-see-the-future

Thoughts have wings, by Robert M. Schoch (New Dawn, 05/01/11)

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/paranormal-parapsychology-ufos-new-science/thoughts-have-wings

Journal’s paper on ESP expected to prompt outrage, by Benedict Carey (The New York Times, 05/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html?_r=1&src=tptw

–> Following the debate “When Science goes psychic” between Lawrence Krauss, Doulglas Hoftstadter, Ben Goldacre,  Richard Wiseman, Jonathan Schooler, David Helfand, Stanley W. Trimble, Anthony Gottlieb, Mohamed Gal-el-Hak.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic?src=twt&twt=roomfordebate

-> No Sacred Mantle, by Lawrence Krauss (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/publication-is-not-a-sacred-mantle

-> A Cutoff for Craziness, by Doulglas Hoftstadter (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/a-cutoff-for-craziness

-> A Buyer-Beware Market, by Ben Goldacre (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/a-buyer-beware-market

-> No need to panic, by Richard Wiseman (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/no-need-to-panic

-> Addressing the bias problem, by Jonathan Schooler (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/addressing-the-systemic-bias-problem

-> [ESP and] An assault on rationality, by David Helfand (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/esp-and-the-assault-on-rationality

-> How open inquiry works, by Stanley W. Trimble (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/how-open-inquiry-works

-> [ESP findings:] A miracle, if true, by Anthony Gottlieb (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/esp-findings-a-miracle-if-true

-> When peer-review falters, by Mohamed Gal-el-Hak (New York Times The Opinion Pages, 07/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/when-peer-review-falters

ESP for porn? By Mark Kernes (AVN, 06/01/11)

http://news.avn.com/articles/ESP-For-Porn-421251.html

Extrasensory perception paper published in respected journal, by Jon Swaine (The Telegraph, 06/01/11)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8244419/Extrasensory-perception-paper-published-in-respected-journal.html

ESP Study gets published in scientific journal, by Ned Potter (ABC News, 06/01/11)

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/extrasensory-perception-scientific-journal-esp-paper-published-cornell/story?id=12556754

The ESP row they all saw coming: Scientists in uproar with ESP research, by Jon Swaine (The Daily Telegraph, 06/01/11)

http://www.calgaryherald.com/story_print.html?id=4072256&sponsor=curriebarracks

Feeling the Future: Has science proved that we’re psychic about porn? No (bet you saw that coming, etc.), by Tom Chivers (The Telegraph, 06/01/11)

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100050392/feeling-the-future-has-science-proved-that-were-psychic-no-bet-you-saw-that-coming-etc/

Kann ESP wissenschaftlich sein? By Jürgen Schönstein (Science Blogs, 06/01/11)

http://www.scienceblogs.de/geograffitico/2011/01/kann-esp-wissenschaftlich-sein.php

A Visit with Daryl Bem, who found precognition in the man who stare at porn, by Robert Hovden (motherboard.tv, 07/01/11)

http://motherboard.tv/2011/1/7/%E2%80%9Cwe-can-feel-the-future%E2%80%9D-a-visit-with-daryl-bem-precognitive-scientist–2

Der Effekt is real da, by Monika Seynsche and Volkart Wildermuth (dradio.de, 07/01/11)

http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1360050/

Has a U.S. Psychologist uncovered proof of ESP? (CTV Calgary, 08/01/11)

http://www.suite101.de/content/gibt-es-hellsicht—der-streit-um-daryl-bems-studie-a98285

Critics blast new study that suggests ESP is real, by Derek Abma (National Post, 08/01/11)

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Critics+blast+study+that+suggests+real/4080636/story.html

Publication of ESP study causes furor, (UPI.com, 08/01/11)

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/01/08/Publication-of-ESP-study-causes-furor/UPI-89801294504615/

Forscher empören sich über Hellseherei-Studie, by Nina Weber (Der Spiegel, 09/01/11)

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,738163,00.html#ref=nldt

Fringe Science: Precognition, by Ken Euler (The Varsity, 10/01/11)

http://thevarsity.ca/articles/39982

The psychology of parapsychology, or why good researchers conducting good articles in good journals can still get it wrong, by Tal Yarkoni (Blog Citation Needed, 10/01/11)

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2011/01/10/the-psychology-of-parapsychology-or-why-good-researchers-publishing-good-articles-in-good-journals-can-still-get-it-totally-wrong/

New Psychic Test Claims Future Events can Predict pas events, by Cathy Ann Smith (Suite101.com, 10/01/11)

http://www.suite101.com/content/new-psychic-test-claims-future-events-can-predict-past-events-a330745

ESP report sets off debate on meta-analysis (New York Times, 11/01/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11esp.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26hp

Do you believe Psychologist has found proof of ESP? by SodaHead News (SodaHead, 11/01/11)

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/do-you-believe-pyschologist-has-found-proof-of-esp/question-1439219/

Forscher schreiten über Wahrsagerei, by Danielle Bengsch (The Welt, 11/01/11)

http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/wissen/article12080853/Forscher-streiten-ueber-Wahrsagerei.html

The ESP row they all saw coming: Scientists in uproar with ESP research, by Jon Swaine (The Daily Telegraph, 11/01/11)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/story_print.html?id=4072256&sponsor=

The Merits of Pre-Cognition (How the Future shapes current choices), by William Harryman (Intergral Option Cafe, 11/01/11)

http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2011/01/ther-merits-of-pre-cognition-how-future.html

It’s Madness – Madness I tell you! By Robert McLuhan (Paranormalia, 12/01/11)

http://monkeywah.typepad.com/paranormalia/2011/01/its-madness-madness-i-tell-you.html

Yet another ESP controversy, by Deric Bownd (Deric Bownd’s Mindblog, 12/01/11)

http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2011/01/yet-another-esp-controversy.html

ESP… one of the longest-running debates in science, (Target Health Global, 12/01/11)

http://blog.targethealth.com/?p=15583

Wait, ESP is real? By John Cloud (Time Healthland, 12/01/11)

http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/12/wait-esp-is-real/

The paper that everyone’s talking about, by Tom Bartlett (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/01/11)

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-paper-that-everyones-talking-about/27579

The paranormal and the scientific method, by Robert Merkel (Larvatus Prodeo, 14/01/11)

http://larvatusprodeo.net/2011/01/14/the-paranormal-and-the-scientific-method/

Do we have ESP? By Julia Moulden (The Huffington Post, 15/01/11)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/do-we-have-one-extra-sens_b_808417.html

Don’t mess with my reality, by Jim Schnabel (Heretical notions, 16/01/11)

http://hereticalnotions.com/2011/01/16/dont-mess-with-my-reality/

Reimplementing Bem’s Feeling the Future, (PEBL Blog, 16/01/11)

http://www.circee.org/+Bem-precognition+.html

CU’s Boulder Prof ‘s journal to publish controversial article, by Whitney Bryen (Colorado Daily, 16/01/11)

http://www.coloradodaily.com/cu-boulder/ci_17113948#axzz1CAatHRIT

Feeling the Future: Premonitions and Precognition – Elements of Practice and of a Theory, by Arkadiusz Jadczyk (Sott.net, 17/01/11)

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100050392/feeling-the-future-has-science-proved-that-were-psychic-no-bet-you-saw-that-coming-etc/

ESP: Heresy or Scientific Breakthrough? by Christine Bronstein (The Huffington Post, 18/01/11)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-bronstein/espheresy-or-scientific-b_b_809180.html

Daryl Bem and Feeling the Future, by Stacy Horn (Blog Unbelievable, 19/01/11)

http://www.echonyc.com/~horn/unbelievable/?p=2216

Gibt es Hellsicht? Der Streit um Daryl Bems Studie, by Frederik Weitz (suite101.de, 19/01/11)

http://www.suite101.de/content/gibt-es-hellsicht—der-streit-um-daryl-bems-studie-a98285

The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe – Podcast 288, by Steven Novella (19/01/11)

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=288

Bem, Bayes, and the limits of statistical inference, by Joachim I. Krueger (Psychology Today, 19/01/11)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/201101/bem-bayes-and-the-limits-statistical-inference?page=2

Miller, G. (2011). News of the week: ESP paper rekindles discussion about statistics. Science, 331,

272-273. (Science, 21/01/11)

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6015/272.summary

That Damned ESP Study, by Anne Amnesia (Hunt Gather Study Medecine, 22/01/11)

http://huntgathermedicine.com/2011/01/22/that-damned-esp-study/

Evidence for ESP? Bem, Science and Anti-Mentalism, by Gina Barrett Putt (Suite101.com, 23/01/11)

http://www.suite101.com/content/evidence-for-esp-bem-science-and-anti-mentalism-a328691

Can we fell the future through psi? Don’t rule it out, by Ed Halliwell (The Guardian, 25/01/11)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/25/precognition-feeling-the-future

Is evidence of ESP an indictment of the peer review process ? By Peter McGraw (Peter McGraw’s blog, 26/01/11)

http://blog.petermcgraw.org/2011/01/is-evidence-for-esp-an-indictment-of-the-peer-review-process/

Interview on The Colbert Report (27/01/11)

The Colbert Report	Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Die Studie, welche angeblich belegt, dass es “Psi” gibt (Teil 1), by Mario Kovic (Sketpiker-blog, 28/01/11)

http://www.skeptiker-blog.ch/2011/01/die-studie-welche-angeblich-belegt-dass.html

Professor Defends ESP Study on Colbert Report, by Max Schindler (The Cornell Daily Sun, 31/01/11)

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/01/31/professor-defends-esp-study-colbert-report

Precognition notes, by Mike Lampton (Mike Lampton’s web site, january 2011)

http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mlampton/Precog.pdf

http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mlampton/Precog.jar

February

Predicting the Future (or at least predicting where naked people are), by Meghan Holohan (Mental Floss, 01/02/11)

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/81173

Daryl Bem: Precognition in the mainstream media, by John G. Kruth (Rhine blog, 02/02/11)

http://rhineonline.blogspot.com/2011/02/daryl-bem-precognition-in-mainstream.html

Extrasexual perception, by Rachel Hahn (Toro Magazine, 02/02/11)

http://www.toromagazine.com/sex/sex-101/f404fcf7-fd34-1374-89cc-0cd40483c3ab/Extrasexual-Perception/index.html

Feeling the Future – An Expansion of Daryl Bem’s time traveling memory experiment, by Michael Khalili (michaelapproved.com, 02/02/11)

http://www.michaelapproved.com/articles/feeling-the-future-daryl-bem-time-traveling-memory-experiment/

-> Feeling the Future – Testing the Masses, by Michael Khalili (michaelapproved.com, 02/02/11)

http://www.michaelapproved.com/feeling-the-future-test/

Evidenz für einen Einfluss zukünftiger Ereignisse auf das Verhalten? By Gerhard Mayer (Gesellschaft für Anomalistik, 04/02/11)

http://www.anomalistik.de/aktuell/sdm/evidenz-fuer-einen-einfluss-zukuenftiger-ereignisse-auf-das-verhalten.html

What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? By IONS Staff (IONS, 04/02/11)

http://www.noetic.org/discussions/big-questions/108/

Getting the facts straight: Dean Radin responds to a Skeptic’s Conviction, by Dean Radin (IONS, 04/02/11)

http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-7-february/getting-the-facts-straight-dean-radin-responds-to/

Scientific Proof of ESP or Evidence of Statistical Error? By Guest Contributor (Madmikes America, 04/02/11)

http://madmikesamerica.com/2011/02/scientific-proof-of-esp-or-evidence-of-statistical-error/

Die Studie, welche angeblich belegt, dass es “Psi” gibt (Teil 2), by Mario Kovic (Sketpiker-blog, 08/02/11)

Etude scientifique de la précognition, by Anthony Lantian (Newsletter de l’Observatoire Zététique, 13/02/11)

http://zetetique.fr/index.php/nl/325-poz-nd65#actualite

Bem et al. reply to Wagenmakers et al., by Dean Radin (Entangled Minds, 14/02/11)

http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2011/02/bem-et-al-reply-to-wagenmakers-et-al.html

More thoughts on Bem and his critics, by Jim Schnabel (Heretical Notions, 15/02/11)

http://hereticalnotions.com/2011/02/15/more-thoughts-on-bem-and-his-critics/

The ‘science’ in scientific peer-reviewed journals, by Ivan Flis (JEPS Bulletin, 15/02/11)

http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/?p=142

With a bit of precognition, you’d have known I was going to post again on this topic, and with a lot of precognition, you’d have known I was going to post today, by Andrew Gelman (Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, 15/02/11)

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/02/with_a_bit_of_p.html

You’ve been fore-porned, (The Martlet, 17/02/11)

http://www.martlet.ca/martlet/article/youve-been-fore-porned/

Macht Sex hellseherisch? By Michael Springer (Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 18/02/11)

http://www.spektrumverlag.de/artikel/1061771

Feeling the Future, by Jean-Michel Abrassart & Nicolas Gauvrit (Podcast Scepticisme Scientifique, 25/02/11)

http://pangolia.com/blog/?p=598

Prédire le futur: probablement possible ? By Daniel Saraga (Le Temps, 26/02/11)

http://emploi.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/7af963a6-4127-11e0-8732-9789c3dce95e/Pr%C3%A9dire_le_futur_probablement_possible

53.1% of You Already Know What This Story’s About. Or Do You? Need a Hint? By Dan Kois (New York Magazine, 27/02/11)

http://nymag.com/news/features/bem-esp-2011-3/

-> With a slideshow of the “Retroactive facilitation of Recall” experiment

http://nymag.com/news/articles/11/03/esp/

-> And a ESP Test with neutral and erotic images

http://nymag.com/news/features/esp-instructions-2011-3

March

Feeling the Future : New Research Challenges Conventional Assumptions about the Influence of the Future on the Past, by Robert M. Schoch (Atlantis Rising, 01/03/11)

http://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/2011/03/01/feeling-the-future/

The new Phonebook is here JPSP 2011 Number 3, by Steve Primer (Healthy Influence – Persuasion Blog, 01/03/11)

http://healthyinfluence.com/wordpress/2011/03/01/the-new-phonebook-is-here-jpsp-2011-number-3/

When can we consider “signifiance” significant? By Jason Sherwin (Bio Careers, 03/03/11)

http://biocareers.com/bio-careers-blog/when-can-we-consider-significance-significant

A premonição sob a luz da ciência, by Débora Rubin (Istoé, 04/03/11)

http://www.istoe.com.br/reportagens/127023_A+PREMONICAO+SOB+A+LUZ+DA+CIENCIA

Não, a ciência não encontrou provas de precognição, by Carlos Orsi (Amalgama, 07/03/11)

http://www.amalgama.blog.br/03/2011/istoe-premonicao/

Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Experience? By Adviser (Psychology Advice, 21/03/11)

http://www.psychology-advice.net/do-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence

The Why of Psi: A follow-up (Psycasm, 21/03/11)

http://www.labspaces.net/view_blog.php?blogID=1263

April

WTF: Journal publishes ESP B-U-N-K, by Mara Greengrass (JAYFK, 05/04/11)

http://www.thejayfk.com/?p=590

Whats new in psychology, new research in the 21st century (11/04/11)

http://pagerankstudio.com/miscellaneous/article_1279.htm

Psychologist Daryl Bem publishes a study on ESP, and academia (predictably) goes to bananas, by Franklin Crawford (Cam Online, 13/04/11)

http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=999&Itemid=9

The Top 5 Mad Scientists in the World, by Matthew Weintrub (Matt^over matter, 20/04/11)

http://mattovermatter.com/2011/04/20/the-top-5-mad-scientists-in-the-world/

Backwards step on looking into the future, by Ben Goldacre (The Guardian, 23/04/11)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/23/ben-goldacre-bad-science?CMP=twt_fd

I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem, by Ben Goldacre (Bad Science, 23/04/11)

http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/i-foresee-that-nobody-will-do-anything-about-this-problem/

Psi and Psychology: the recent debate, by Daryl Bem, Jonathan Schooler, & Samuel Moulton (25/04/11)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0Tdiu5kwjKs

Sex and the study, by Bernd Harder (GWUP, 26/04/11)

http://blog.gwup.net/2011/04/26/sex-and-the-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gwup-die-skeptiker+%28gwup+|+die+skeptiker%29

“It’s though to make predictions, especially about the future”, by Gary Curtis (Fallacy Files, 27/04/11)

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/archive042011.html#04272011

La précognition est-elle démontrée ? Les pouvoirs paranormaux prouvés par la statistique ? By Avner Bar-Hen (Images des Mathématiques, 27/04/11)

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/La-precognition-est-elle-demontree.html

Feeling the Future, Smelling the Rot, by Mike (Bare Normality, 28/04/11)

http://barenormality.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/feeling-the-future/

May

Braude, S. (2011). Editorial. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25(1), 1-6.

http://journalofscientificexploration.org/

Sixth Sense: The ESP Debate, by Seyoun Kim (The Cornell Daily Sun, 04/05/11)

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/science/content/2011/05/04/sixth-sense-esp-debate

Why that study about psychic porn was totally bogus, by Alasdair Wilkins (i09, 04/05/11)

http://io9.com/5798408

Die Studie, welche angeblich belegt, dass es “Psi” gibt (Teil 3), by Mario Kovic (Sketpiker-blog, 04/05/11)

http://www.skeptiker-blog.ch/2011/05/die-studie-welche-angeblich-belegt-dass.html

Journal rejects studies contradicting precognition, by Peter Aldhous (The New Scientist, 05/05/11)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20447-journal-rejects-studies-contradicting-precognition.html

Slippery Skepticism, by Greg (Daily Grail, 05/05/11)

http://dailygrail.com/Skepticism/2011/5/Slippery-Skepticism

How should journals handle replication studies, by Sanjay Srivastava (The Hardest Science, 10/05/11)

http://hardsci.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/how-should-journals-handle-replication-studies/

Study: Odds against existence of ESP, by UPI (UPI Science News, 18/05/11)

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/05/18/Study-Odds-against-existence-of-ESP/UPI-41771305770298/

Odds are against ESP, say researchers – though their numbers say a bit different, by Emma Woollacott (TG Daily, 18/05/11)

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/56020-odds-are-against-esp-say-researchers-though-their-numbers-say-a-bit-

New Statistical Approach Doesn’t Support Claims that ESP Exist, by Renate Bayez (Medical News Today, 19/05/11)

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225826.php

Daryl Bem: Feeling the Future. Twin Talk by Dr Mercy (Twin Talk Podcast, 20/05/11)

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Dossey, L. (2011). Why are scientists afraid of Daryl Bem? Explore, 7, 127-137.

http://www.alice.id.tue.nl/references/dossey-2011.pdf

June

Psychologist Daryl Bem ’60 has just published an extraordinary hypothesis. Go ahead and guess, by Bill Donahue (Reed Magazine on ‘Forward Thinker’, June 2011)

http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/articles/features/bem/bem.html

Feeling the Future, Part 2, by Mike (Bare Normality, 04/06/11)

http://barenormality.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/feeling-the-future-part-2/

Forseeing a Fortean Future? By Alan Murdie (Fortean Times, 07/06/11)

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/5506/forseeing_a_fortean_future.html

It’s Science, but not necessarily right, by Carl Zimmer (The New York Times, 26/06/11)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26ideas.html?_r=2

 July

On Daryl Bem’s Feeling the Future Paper, by Matthew Sperrin (Matt’s blog, 06/07/11)

http://mattsperrin.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-daryl-bems-feeling-future-paper.html

On Daryl Bem’s Feeling the Future Paper, by Akhila Raman (06/07/11)

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.0885v1.pdf

Believing Impossible Things before Breakfast (or Anytime!), by Cynthia Nigro (Rhine Blog, 14/07/11)

http://rhineonline.blogspot.com/2011/07/believing-impossible-things-before.html

 August

Extrasensory Perception (ESP): Bayesian estimation approach to meta-analysis, by John K. Kruschke (Doing Bayesian Data Analysis Blog, 01/08/11)

http://doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/08/extrasensory-perception-esp-bayesian.html

Why I Still Don’t Believe in Precognition, by Joachim I. Krueger (Psychology Today, 11/08/11)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/201108/why-i-still-don-t-believe-in-precognition

Poynton, J. (2011). Precognition and the Daryl Bem Furore. Paranormal Review, 59, 29-31.

 November

Future Influence : The Quantum Physics of Precognition or Pseudoscience? by Sascha Vongehr (Science 2.0, 03/11/11)

http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/future_influence_quantum_physics_precognition_or_pseudoscience-84265

Faster than light neutrinos succumb to Bayesian Method, by Sascha Vongehr (Science 2.0, 11/11/11)

http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/faster_light_neutrinos_succumb_bayesian_method-84534

The Science of Precognition: Cosmic habituation and Decline effect, by Sascha Vongehr (Science 2.0, 16/11/11)

http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/science_precognition_cosmic_habituation_and_decline_effect-84694

Some critics and replies

A possible flaw in experiments 8 and 9, by Richard Wiseman (18/11/10)

http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/bems-esp-research/

-> Bem’s reply (on Dean Radin’s blog, 22/11/10)

http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/11/wiseman-bem-exchange-on-feeling-future.html

Galak, J., & Nelson, L.D. (29/10/10). A Replication of the Procedures from Bem (2010, Study 8), and a Failure to Replicate the Same Results.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1699970

→ This online procedure has severe limitations

Why Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Their Data: The Case of Psi, by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom, & Han van der Maas, University of Amsterdam (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 426-432)

http://www.ruudwetzels.com/articles/Wagenmakersetal_subm.pdf

-> counter-critic: That silly ESP paper and some silliness in a rebuttal as well, by Andrew Gelman (Statistical Modeling, 06/01/11)

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/01/that_silly_esp.html

-> Must Psychologists Change the Way They Analyze Their Data? A Response to Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, & Van der Maas (2011), by Daryl J. Bem, Jessica Utts & Wesley O. Johnson (in press of JPSP, 14/05/11)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290411/ResponsetoWagenmakers.pdf

—> Reply: Yes, Psychologists must change the way they analyze their data. Clarifications for Bem, Utts and Jonhson (2011)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1018886/ClarificationsForBemUttsJohnson.pdf

Brief Note: Daryl Bem and Precognition, by Andrew Wilson (Notes from two scientific Psychologists, 18/11/10)

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/brief-note-daryl-bem-and-precognition.html

I knew you were going to say that, by Jamy Ian Swiss (James Randi Educational Foundation, 1/12/10)

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1154-i-knew-you-were-going-to-say-that.html

Back from the future: Comments on Bem, by James Alcock (The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 3/12/10)

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/back_from_the_future

-> My comments on Alcock’s comments on Bem’s precognition article, by Dean Radin (Entangled Minds, 3/12/10)

http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-comments-on-alcocks-comments-on-bems.html

-> Response to Alcock, by Daryl J. Bem (Center for Scientific Inquiry, 21/12/10)

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/response_to_alcocks_back_from_the_future_comments_on_bem

And as a PDF : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290411/ResponseToAlcock.pdf

->>> Response to Bem’s Comments, by James Alcock (Center for Scientific Inquiry, 21/12/10)

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/response_to_bems_comments

-> Comments on James Alcock’s rebuttal: Debate on precognition in the Skeptical Inquirer: Daryl Bem vs James Alcock, by Jime (Subversive Thinking, 12/01/11)

Parapsychologie: Blick in die Zukunft? By Amardeo Sarma (GWUP, 4/12/10)

http://blog.gwup.net/2010/12/04/parapsychologie-blick-in-die-zukunft/

An assesment of evidence for feeling the future with a discussion of Bayes factor and signifiance testing, by Jeffrey N. Rouder & Richard D. Morey (JPSP in press, 05/01/11)

http://pcl.missouri.edu/sites/default/files/rouder-morey.pdf

Bem’s Psi Research, by Steven Novella (Neurologica Blog, 07/01/11)

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=2701

La précognition enfin démontrée ? By Nicolas Gauvrit (Psychologie, mathématiques et choses connexes, 17/01/11)

http://psymath.blogspot.com/2011/01/la-precognition-enfin-demontree.html

Daryl Bem et l’astuce des tests multiples: vessies, lanternes, et statistiques, by Nicolas Gauvrit (AFIS, 29/01/11)

http://www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article1535

Extrasensory pornception, by Michael Shermer (Scientific American, May 2011, p. 90)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extrasensory-pornception

Precognition or pathological science? An analysis of Daryl Bem’s Controversial “Feeling the Future” Paper, by Nicolas Gauvrit (Skeptic, 13/04/11)

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-04-13/#feature

Rouder, J.N., & Morey, R.D. (2011). A Bayes factor meta-analysis of Bem’s ESP claim. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI 10.3758/s13423-011-0088-7

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q113m61462793241/