EXCLUSIVE: This Columbia neuroscientist’s side research will shock you.
Equally concerning, Novella said, was that several researchers independently tried to replicate Bem’s findings and failed. When they approached the same academic journal that published the first “Feeling the future” study, however, the new paper was rejected, even though it followed the same methodology. On a large scale, this odd phenomenon is known as
“The system really isn’t optimized for the quality of the research itself, it’s optimized for the business model of what's putting the journal out there,” he said. “We need to think very carefully about how to remove some of the blatant perverse incentives, and we need to figure out ways of setting the bar a little bit higher for saying, ‘This is a published, peer-reviewed study.’”
On the other hand, she said she doesn’t think of concepts within the noetic sciences of being purely correct or incorrect. The evidence might come to support certain aspects, like precognition, channeling, or telepathy, more strongly than others. But she advocates for more study into reported psychic abilities, even if research disproved its existence.
Even so, it had been difficult to secure funding for My Brain and Me. The NYC Media Lab award was nice, but his grant applications to the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health had been rejected. After learning about IONS, Pantazatos approached the organization about collaborating on the project in some capacity. The two parties created a survey to ask participants about reported psychic experiences.
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