Rhine and test subject, circa 1970s. (Duke University Archives Photograph Collection)

The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine

Skeptics deem Rhine’s famous ESP trials a bust. The record says otherwise.

One of my intellectual heroes is parapsychologist J.B. Rhine (1895–1980), who pioneered ESP card experiments at Duke University in the early 1930s. One evening, one of my kids went online to test my judgment — and found it wanting.