Rupert Sheldrake: Wikipedia Under Threat

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Wikipedia Under Threat

by Rupert Sheldrake

Wikipedia is a wonderful invention. But precisely because it’s so trusted and convenient, people with their own agendas keep trying to take it over. Editing wars are common. According to researchers at Oxford University, the most controversial subjects worldwide include Israel and God.

This is not surprising. Everyone knows that there are opposing views on politics and religion, and many people recognize a biased account when they see it. But in the realm of science, things are different. Most people have no scientific expertise and believe that science is objective. Their trust is now being abused systematically by a highly motivated group of activists called Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia.

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Sheldrake, TED, and paradigm wars

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This from philosopher Christian de Quincey, anent Rupert Sheldrake’s censored TEDx talk.

For what it’s worth, Yeats in his old age speculated that there is something in the nature of the times (any given times) that makes certain people unable to entertain certain categories of thought. I suspect that is true. We’re not nearly as free to think our own thoughts as we think we are. I don’t think i could become a physicalist (materialist) if i wanted to. It just strikes me as a superstition.

http://www.christiandequincey.com/?p=2050

‘TED’ Sparks Paradigm War

Internet video site TED has removed presentations by biologist Rupert Sheldrakeand historian Graham Hancock because—according to TED—their ideas are “pseudoscience.”

What does this mean?

Well, simply, it means that one of the leading Internet sites for sharing intellectual ideas has shut out views that challenge deep-rooted dogmas of modern science—a decidedly unscientific act. It means the folks at TED buy into mainstream scientific materialism as the last word on what is “real” or “ideas worth spreading.”

So, what happened? 

The TED organizers have decided

 

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So maybe evolution is more conscious than science has been ready to concede

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The whole evolution debate that deforms our politics and social life is itself deformed by the assumption that the only “scientific” defense of evolution assumes that mutations that give the affected species a competitive advantage occur spontaneously, “by accident,” never by the intent of the organism or the species of (perish the thought!) of any agency beyond the organism or species other than sheer chance.

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