Back from the Future: Parapsychology and the Bem Affair. James Alcock January 6, 2011 Psychologist Daryl Bem has reported data suggesting that individuals’ future experiences can influence their responses in the present.
Careful scrutiny of his report reveals serious flaws in procedure and analysis, rendering this interpretation untenable. This paper will also appear in the March/April 2011 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. A flurry of media attention is being directed toward the prepublication distribution of Daryl Bem’s forthcoming research paper “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect.”1 Bem claims to have found evidence of marvelous psychic abilities that transcend time and allow the future to reach backward to change the past. The Paper That Everyone's Talking About - Percolator. Nearly all academic articles are ignored by everyone outside that particular field (and by many inside it, too).
A few make an impact, get cited, etc. Even fewer get mainstream attention. Caps.ucsf.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bem2011.pdf.