Joe Rogan Experience #2569 - Bill Thompson · Aired Oct 21, 2026
Claim summary · not a verbatim quotation
Training rats on the East Coast has been shown to make unrelated West Coast rats learn the same maze faster.
The finding
What remains unresolved
Joe states the cross-location effect as demonstrated, and Thompson links it to Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake's own account interprets older rat experiments and proposes a blinded test at two locations. That account does not establish the specific coast-to-coast demonstration described here. We found no independently controlled causal demonstration settling it; morphic resonance remains a hypothesis.
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Quick answer
Is it true that Training rats on the East Coast has been shown to make unrelated West Coast rats learn the same maze faster?
We can't say yet. Joe states the cross-location effect as demonstrated, and Thompson links it to Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake's own account interprets older rat experiments and proposes a blinded test at two locations. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2569 - Bill Thompson, aired Oct 21, 2026, at 2:23:08. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. The supporting source is sheldrake.org, linked below.
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