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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
June 20, 2018 at 5:35 pm
(June 20, 2018 at 2:03 pm)Drich Wrote: (June 20, 2018 at 9:05 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: It WAS difficult to take on board that you would spring a scientific method rant off my comment completely unselfconscious of the irony, but you ARE Drich, after all; and knowing that helped.
it's funny you see only irony here. I seem me using the scientific method to smash in your collective teeth here. meaning I am using your tool to shut you up.
I can't think of a kind response, so I'll leave you to it.
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
June 20, 2018 at 11:18 pm
Quote:it's funny you see only irony here. I seem me using the scientific method to smash in your collective teeth here. meaning I am using your tool to shut you up.
Your not using any tools your are a tool
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
July 26, 2018 at 4:13 pm
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
July 26, 2018 at 7:39 pm
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
July 26, 2018 at 8:29 pm
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(July 26, 2018 at 5:13 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Or they simply don't want to be assosciated with that load of utter navel gazing load of bollox.
I must admit, I'd take Sheldrake's criticisms more seriously if the man wasn't tied to parapsychology. I think it's healthy praxis to criticize science (to keep it on track), but I think I'd be more receptive if those criticisms came from a skeptic... rather than someone pushing ideas that (quite frankly) fall outside the purview of scientific investigation.
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
July 27, 2018 at 1:38 pm
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RE: Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
July 27, 2018 at 1:47 pm
(July 27, 2018 at 1:38 pm)Wololo Wrote: 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.
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