SIO149: Is ESP Real? No, Really... It Might Be...

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A new meta-study was recently published in the American Psychologist, the major journal of the American Psychological Association, which shows statistically significant results regarding ESP-like stuff. While this seems completely fantastical and against everything materialists like me tend to believe in, it has passed peer review in a major journal. So what are skeptics like us to make of this? To help us sort out these questions, I've got philosopher Aaron Rabi from ETV and Philosophers in Space, and Aaron's dad Jessie Rabinowitz, who happens to have expertise in the field of psychology. We also discuss the SGU reaction to the paper, which was incredibly dismissive. Here's an article on Ganzfeld studies that Aaron mentions. Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only is episode 149. I'm your host Thomas Smith. And thank you so much for listening. I've got a really interesting episode today. Something I really never thought I would be talking about or I guess hearing about in this way
0:45.1	which is and I'll put it very click baby is ESP real or is any sort of psychic phenomenon real and contrary to what the normal thing with those questions is where the headline
0:59.7	asked the question and the article just says nah.
1:03.0	Turns out, there may be, as of right now,
1:07.0	there is a peer-reviewed scientific article published in a major journal with statistically significant results.
1:16.4	I'm putting that as directly and parsimoniously as I can without trying to bias anything one way or the other and I've got a really cool
1:26.4	team here to talk us through it and I will just go right over to it because we do some
1:32.1	introductions when they are on.
1:34.5	So let's cut on over to find out more about this really bizarre and kind of surprising
1:40.2	and mind-blowing thing. And I'm joined by Aaron and I'm joined by Aaron and Jesse well shoot what are we going to say for your for your last name I know
1:54.8	Aaron you go by something and Jesse I don't know why you go by so is what are we
1:59.7	doing here tell me I go by rabbinowice I don't know what that boy does. You can do you can do
2:04.4	Aaron and Jesse Robinowitz and make it a big reveal I suppose.
2:08.0	Whoa! Aaron and Jesse Robinowitz. I'm so glad you're here. We've got a very interesting paper and interesting
2:15.6	fallout to talk about. I know everybody is familiar with Aaron from the hit
2:20.4	podcast philosophers in space as well as E TV and other work but also
2:25.8	Jesse you're new to the show first time right first time in in space all right
2:30.7	no we're not in space right now that's the other one.
2:33.0	Oh, first time on serious increase over.
2:35.0	Yes.
2:36.0	This one is takes place on Earth, but it's at Cape Canaveral.
2:40.0	Well, I don't know.
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