Rupert Sheldrake - Challenging Dogmatism In Science

[sebastianpenraeth]

@untestableClaims

It's little wonder to me that adherents to a threatened paradigm, such as you appear to be, would echo the bark of dogmatic materialism. Your arguments are unfortunately juvenile.

[untestableClaims]

read the paper found by googleing 'The Psychic Pet Phenomenon A reply to Rupert Sheldrake'. Three credentialed professors rake Sheldrake's 'methods' over the coals, and they do so by documenting his shoddy handling of data in detail.

[mistrysherlock]

@untestableClaims

" Three credentialed(sic)professors" fallacy:argument from authority.See,anyone can do that... look up irony in the dictionary old bean.Better still, peer review the dictionary!

[sebastianpenraeth]

@untestableClaims

Richard Wiseman is a hack propagating deception. He willingly ignores the data in his own 4 experiments and that of Sheldrake's 200+ with the same dog. Sheldrake says..."Jaytee was at the window an average of 4% of the time during the main period of Pam's absence, and 78% of the time when she was on the way home. This difference was statistically significant. When Wiseman's data were plotted on graphs, they showed essentially the same pattern as my own."

[untestableClaims]

"when he's done a lot of important research in botany" fallacy: Red-Herring. it doesn't matter what proper science he's done. I'm critical of his pseudo-science.

"has taught at Cambridge and other major universities" fallacy: Argument from Authority. fake science is still fake no matter the practitioner or his background or position.

"pseudo-skeptical trolls" fallacy: Poisoning the well. The validity of my criticism is not dependent on whether I'm a 'troll' or not.

[destituteneedsjob]

It's always so interesting to see pseudo-skeptical trolls who assert that Rupert Sheldrake is a pseudo-scientist when he's done a lot of important research in botany, agricultureof , etc, has taught at Cambridge and other major universities and has published his more unusual research in peer reviewed journals. Compared to Dawkins or PZ Myers, he's got an enormous amount of published research and is a working research scientist.

Of course the truth isn't what pseudo-skeptics care about.

[untestableClaims]

Boo-Hoo, Big Bully Science is demanding Sheldrake's lunch money, and Actual Evidence for his claims, not just post-hoc anomaly-hunting claimed as 'evidence.' Poor Sheldrake, he's such a *victim*. But wait, Sheldrake's got a plan. See, if Big Bully Science can't answer some questions, or doesn't give you the answer that you *want*, just Redefine Science! have your big brother beat the crap out of science by calling it 'dogmatic' and then twist its arm until it agrees with you! who-hoo!

[untestableClaims]

Sheldrake is a fraud. google 'The Psychic Pet Phenomenon A reply to Rupert Sheldrake'.

[normski262]

What a load of rubbish, prevaricating on about an aspect which can NEVER be scientifically accepted or proven. It’s down to personal experience and the emphasis is on the word personal, this nothing more than an intellectual pissing contest, and self inflating egos along with money and books. They should spend more time searching for their own truth instead of trying to sell us some worldly intellectual rubbish.

[brigtern]

@normski262

For myself i wonder when i hear the language of Shelldrake. using my creativity as i try to travel all the way with his models trough my mind and "watching it"

you have to use your creativity and have a non ego state of mind thats all.. its just this man knows his dialekt! using more words to describe things further away

[youracademy]

Thank you for this wonderful upload!

[veracityfilms]

I think this scientist would be more than interested to see my first uploaded video "Witness a miracle.". I swear the footage is absolutely genuine. It is best seen full screen and the key moment to pay attention would be as soon as the film comes into focus. I have personal evidence which may support his theories. If it hadn't had this first had evidence I may doubt it my self, but I swear on all that is good and innocent in this world that it is true. This is only one small example of many.

[Greyhound1405]

Science now has the amswers to virtually all the things that were not known when this talk was given.

[alwinder60]

@Greyhound1405

May I ask you what is it exactly that you are referring to???

Thanks

[Sorcoral]

It's always a hoot to listen to someone dragging science through the mud to explain their religion.

I happened to jump to a nice bit about dying people having a "telepathic like experience". With hard conclusions like that I am left wondering why people don't really care about what he has to say.

[jonakompa]

Sheldrake takes very courageous stand which is commendable. I agree with Dr. Peter Fenwick that science should be a system of open inquiry. The placebo effect is a very simple and effective example of 'mind over matter'.

[marcusantonio91]

@jonakompa have you read the book irreducible mind? I currently am and they talk about 'mind over matter' in great detail

[benthejrporter]

Very interesting pair, these two. Thanks

[marcusantonio91]

i'm not sure I share Rupert's optimism, you only have to look at the dawkins and randi forums to know what we're up against

[alliant]

@marcusantonio91

lol. truth

[AlvinOfLoronei]

@marcusantonio91 on my part there is not as much I'm doing apart from sharing this videos on facebook and talking with my friends about this subject. But I would say that recently I have enjoyed, and I used to admire him better, Mr Dawkins being put in place for his lack of vision. this surely reflected in his rudeness but of course we understand better his limitations right?

[marcusantonio91]

@AlvinOfLoronei I agree with a lot of what Richard Dawkins and the New atheist movement says but Richard Himself comes off as incredibly arrogant

[5147848amp]

Thank you for uploading this wonderful stuff. Here's to dissipating dogmaticism..

[cricketjam]

Sheldrake is one of my favorite writers I mention him in the description of my rice exp video, I only hope he won't mind, I mean to ask him.

[cricketjam]

great interview!