Parapsychologist Dean Radin sat down on The Joe Rogan Experience to detail the quiet survival of government-funded psychic research, bringing renewed attention to Ed May, the director of the Stargate program. Radin described how a 1992 recession led to his own layoff, prompting May to orchestrate a quiet pivot to keep his research alive.
Speaking with host Joe Rogan, Radin noted that Ed May approved his transfer to the University of Edinburgh by leveraging hidden funding channels. Radin recalled that "unbeknownst to most people at the time, that the Stargate program" was quietly keeping the work afloat by issuing classified contracts internationally.
As interest in declassified government anomalies continues to trend, May's strategic distribution of these contracts highlights how close-knit the psychic research community had to be to survive institutional cuts. With modern commentators increasingly looking back at the Cold War's stranger projects, May's administrative maneuvering is being reframed not just as bureaucratic survival, but as a vital lifeline for alternative science.