On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:14:17 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: >Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was >beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) >even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of >paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the >existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data >"changed his mind" following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as >exceedingly dubious.
Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the "closet", so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem "go off the rails"? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] P.S. Emily Nussbaum's article on Bem's "Exotic become Erotic" theory may also be relevant given that it also appears at about this time; see: http://www.emilynussbaum.com/lingua_franca/1998/05/does_the_exotic_become_erotic.php --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18294 or send a blank email to leave-18294-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
