And before that he was a grad student a couple of years ahead of me with Harlan 
Lane at Michigan.
I knew him very slightly.

On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:

> No, but there is truth to the rumor that Daryl Bem was my undergraduate 
> advisor. Hmmm...Scott
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:51 PM, "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Making the media rounds is a story about physics "research" on
>> time travel that involves twitter.  I can't/don't want to/whatever
>> explain, so see this story for one view:
>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/researchers-time-travelers-twitter-turn-empty-handed-article-1.1568677
>> and
>> http://www.nbcnews.com/science/internet-search-time-travelers-turns-nothing-time-2D11840962
>>  
>> For those interested in reading the preprint, see:
>> http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128
>>  
>> Strangely enough, the authors have had a difficult time getting their
>> paper published.  Initial examination of the paper suggests that it is
>> probably the lack of statistically significant results that causes the
>> paper from being published -- we all are aware of the prejudice
>> against papers reporting null results.  Perhaps they should have
>> used confidence intervals instead.
>>  
>> No truth to the rumor that Scott Lilienfeld and Sally Satel will write
>> a book about this misuse of resources in the name of science.
>>  
>> Still, this research does raise the question "Does Daryl Bem have a
>> twitter account?"  And if the answer if "Yes", the next question is
>> why didn't he answer?
>>  
>> Things that make you go hmmmm.
>>  
>> -Mike Palij
>> New York University
>> [email protected]
>>  
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