[D66] The Science Delusion

[René Oudeweg]

https://youtu.be/1TerTgDEgUE

  Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake at TEDx 
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Re-uploaded (again, just in case), since TED's Chris Anderson censored 
Rupert Sheldrake, along with Graham Hancock, and removed this video and 
Hancock's from the TEDx YouTube channel. They dared question the 
Scientistic Orthodoxy, and for that they have been publicly castigated 
and defamed. Follow this link for TED's dubious statement on the matter 
(and the many comments appropriately critical of TED's rationale):
http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-f...

Presumably TED disavows any copyright claim, as they've disavowed 
association with the videos.

BIO:
Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. (born 28 June 1942) is a biologist and author of 
more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow 
of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge 
University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first 
class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He 
then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, 
where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where 
he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, 
Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell 
biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he 
carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of 
cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.

While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the 
mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant 
hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.

 From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University of 
Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 
he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the 
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 
(ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping 
systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a 
year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where 
he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life.

 From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project 
funded from Trinity College,Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Schumacher 
College , in Dartington, Devon, a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic 
Sciences near San Francisco, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate 
Institute in Connecticut.

He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce and two sons.

He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one 
of the participants (along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, 
Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A 
Glorious Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often 
taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for 
newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, 
The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, 
Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and 
Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of 
magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the 
Spectator.

Books by Rupert Sheldrake:
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981). New 
edition 2009 (in the US published as Morphic Resonance)
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)
The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992)
Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to 
Revolutionary Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from 
the British Institute for Social Inventions)
Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained 
Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the 
British Scientific and Medical Network)
The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)
The Science Delusion (2012, published in the US as Science Set Free)

On 12/13/25 22:56, René Oudeweg wrote:
> Geen idee wat parapsychologie behelst maar ik kwam Sheldrake tegen in 
> het nieuwe boek van Paul Kingsnorth "Against the Machine".
> 
> De kritiekloze omarming van wetenschap als zou het een geldige monopolie 
> hebben op de beschrijving van de werkelijkheid is nogal . IK zal niet 
> nalaten om de mainstream wetenschap, zoals je die vandaag ziet, de grond 
> in te boren. De meeste wetenschappelijke ontdekking zijn gemaakt door 
> lieden die niet de wetenschappelijke methode volgden maar
> 
> On 12/13/25 17:21, Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks via D66 wrote:
>> Rene Oudeweg <roudeweg at gmail.com> schreef,
>>> Here’s a detailed, long-form summary of The Science Delusion: Freeing
>>> the Spirit of Enquiry by Rupert Sheldrake
>>
>> Ik wil je niet op de tenen trappen wanneer je een foutje maakt... maar 
>> op,
>>    https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
>> staat,
>>    Rupert Sheldrake (Newark-on-Trent, 28 juni 1942) is een Engels auteur
>>    die zich, na een opleiding in de celbiologie, bezighoudt met
>>    parapsychologie.
>> Zie,
>>    https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morfogenetisch_veld
>>
>> Het is dus oppassen geblazen...
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