How Morphic Fields Work?

# Summary

This Stuff You Should Know episode dives into the controversial life and work of Rupert Sheldrake, a highly trained biochemist turned scientific heretic who challenges conventional understanding of how nature works. The hosts explore Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance—the idea that invisible fields guide not just how organisms develop and look alike across time and space, but also how they behave—and examine his famous experiments, including one involving a dog named JT who seems to telepathically sense when her owner is coming home. While the scientific establishment has largely rejected his ideas as pseudoscience, Sheldrake's intelligence, courtesy, and willingness to subject his theories to experimentation have earned him both devoted followers and fierce critics who continue battling over the interpretation of his data.