<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 9, 2010, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I also find some of Sheldrake's theories over the top or silly, but (1) that has nothing to do with his experiments</div></blockquote><div><br></div>OF COURSE THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIS EXPERIMENTS! If the man is known for being a fool then it's not unreasonable to think his experiments may have been foolishly performed, assuming he did any experiment at all and didn't just go straight to the typewriter.<br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>if a scientist with a solid background speaks up for psi, it *means* he's a lunatic/gullible/lying etc, so you don't need to consider anything further that he says. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>And you think this ridiculous situation has continued unabated for centuries. Damien that is Bullshit, just Bullshit.<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>So why aren't their papers published in Nature and Science? Suppose stem cell papers were routinely sent for review to Jesuits at the God Hates Abortion Institute at Notre Dame</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Good God almighty! I would estimate that those two journals published about 60% of the Scientific discoveries made in the 20'th century, and you are comparing them to some religious rag. BULLSHIT!</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark<br><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>