Sheldrake spends a little time arguing that Wiseman had a selective bias in the duplicate experiment he performed on whether dogs could anticipate the arrival of their owner. Sheldrake also claims that Wiseman's results are basically identical to his own, even stronger. Apparently Wiseman ditched some datasets, on the basis that he had set off a 'false alarm'. The interviewer doesn't dig deeper into this. Sheldrake also seems bitter that someone else attempted to duplicate his research, going so far as referring to Wiseman's research 'parasitic'.
After that its a tedious back and forth free form rant between Sheldrake and the interviewer about supposed materialists (as well as capitalists) quelching any hope of a science of the paranormal. All dissenters of the paranormal are thoroughly demonized. Speculations then go on about the psychology of Wiseman, and whether Science has reached a dead end, citing handwavingly disappointments about The Genome Projects, String Theory and Big Pharma new expensive versions of old types of medicine.
I'll see if I can't dig out something about Wiseman, and I'll look for comments from him on this. However the interview was a rather poor form of Sheldrake. He sounds very much like the crackpot, his critics has painted him as.
I have met Dr Sheldrake, and he is a gentleman and a scholar. I wouldn't go near serious discussion of the paranormal, thought, it is subjected to relentless vilification from a coterie of committed materialists, to whom the establishment of a single genuine instance of something like telepathic communication is a mortal threat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
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http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/psychicdogreply.pdf
Sheldrake spends a little time arguing that Wiseman had a selective bias in the duplicate experiment he performed on whether dogs could anticipate the arrival of their owner. Sheldrake also claims that Wiseman's results are basically identical to his own, even stronger. Apparently Wiseman ditched some datasets, on the basis that he had set off a 'false alarm'. The interviewer doesn't dig deeper into this. Sheldrake also seems bitter that someone else attempted to duplicate his research, going so far as referring to Wiseman's research 'parasitic'.
ReplyDeleteAfter that its a tedious back and forth free form rant between Sheldrake and the interviewer about supposed materialists (as well as capitalists) quelching any hope of a science of the paranormal. All dissenters of the paranormal are thoroughly demonized. Speculations then go on about the psychology of Wiseman, and whether Science has reached a dead end, citing handwavingly disappointments about The Genome Projects, String Theory and Big Pharma new expensive versions of old types of medicine.
I'll see if I can't dig out something about Wiseman, and I'll look for comments from him on this. However the interview was a rather poor form of Sheldrake. He sounds very much like the crackpot, his critics has painted him as.
100% I agree with anonymous.
ReplyDelete...is it just me or is anon's comment written completely in Japanese? what does BDK agree with?
ReplyDeleteYou really think so?
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ReplyDeleteIt looks like a song or a poem to me. A lot of repeated cadence.
I'm afraid I must disagree with BDK on this one. -- Bilbo in anonymous, anonymous mode.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is has a lot of smiley faces. It must agree with you.
ReplyDeleteI have met Dr Sheldrake, and he is a gentleman and a scholar. I wouldn't go near serious discussion of the paranormal, thought, it is subjected to relentless vilification from a coterie of committed materialists, to whom the establishment of a single genuine instance of something like telepathic communication is a mortal threat.
ReplyDeleteIt only has to happen once.
Oh get over yourself Jeeprs.
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