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467: Mitch Horowitz

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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The Rap on the Bem Experiments Isn't Repeated.

A psychologist at cornell named darrell bem conducted a series of precognition experiments in 20 11. He was subjected to just withering criticism, absolutely withering criticism. The rap on the ben experiments is that they haven't been a replicated. Not only have they been replicated, but in fact, bem took the a step of making all his data, all his software, all his notes, all of his material, positive sets, nullsets, et cetera, available to anybody. And so it's not only a problem in terms of scepticism morphing into idiology, but it's a problem in Terms of who has influence over forms like wickipedia.

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