Illustration from The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin D. Babbitt (1878), with thanks to the Public Domain Review.

Is Precognition Real?

Skeptics eviscerated a Cornell psychologist whose published evidence said yes. A decade later, his data has stood up.

More than ten years ago, a prominent research psychologist, Daryl J. Bem, published a paper in a respected academic journal that presented evidence for precognition. The response was swift and withering. Critics in academia and news…