Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake

[Angrboda]

If you saw your life's work thrashed by an unlettered, moronic bullshitter (because that's what Sheldrake is) and then saw his garbage being spread by a group purporting to be an eminent and valuable spreader of knowledge, you'd kick up too.

Being about challenging orthodoxy doesn't absovle the TED group from doing basic research.  And when I can spot a fraud (me with no science training beyond secondary school) more easily than them, maybe they should reevaluate their mission.

First of all, Sheldrake is not unlettered. One can impugn his arguments and sources, but he is far from an ignorant schmuck throwing ignorant shit at the wall to see what sticks. You can fault the arguments and conclusions, but hardly on the basis of his scholarship.

Second, since you didn't read the accompanying material, I will point out that his talk was part of a TED initiative in creating self-organized TEDTalks, some 200 of which were subsequently posted to the TEDTalks website. Sheldrake's video was flagged by others for some of the relevant issues, and TEDTalks responded to those complaints as they have.

As they say, the rest is history.