[ExI] Psi (no need to read this post you already knowwhatitsays )

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Mon Jan 11 09:29:57 UTC 2010


On Jan 9, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> On 1/9/2010 12:48 PM, John Clark wrote:
>> If a high school dropout who worked as the bathroom attendant at the zoo
>> had a website and claimed to have made a major discovery about stem
>> cells from an experiment described on that website I would not bother to
>> read it.
> 
> Neither would I, probably. When a biochemistry PhD and Research Fellow of the Royal Society, like Sheldrake, does so, I'd be less quick to dismiss his scientific report.

Well, I have read bit of Sheldrake.  The man rolled up something powerfully mind altering in his diplomas and smoked it as far as I can tell.   Morphogenic fields and 100th monkey syndrome indeed.  If this passes for science then I don't know why we think science can get us of the "demon haunted world".  

His reports are not expressed as science, are not verified by repeatable experiment, and do not fit well with existing knowledge or better explain most of what the existing knowledge has had good success explaining and making testable predictions about.   I don't see that his credentials have a thing to do with it.

- samantha





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