rupert sheldrake

I have been following the debate, it's quite hilarious. You can get a glimpse of the controversy on rationalwiki: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake#Skeptical_conspiracy It's clear from the evidence that no militant group of skeptics have been editing Sheldrake's Wikipedia...

It seems like I am one of the few that read and comment about what Chopra has to say. SFgate often doesn't even put a link to the column on their web page but he still posts pretty regularly. This week it is all about those darn skeptics and scientists with their closed minds just don't...

This morning I woke to BBC Radio 5's interview with Rupert Sheldrake who was described as Professor Sheldrake from Cambridge University. I think he must have a new book coming out or something. He went on to describe his experiments demonstrating psychic abilities in animals including the...

I've read only one book by Sheldrake and I've seen a few of his videos. My take (and I'm no expert on his body of work) is that he makes a good argument for telepathy and other similar phenomena being a natural, not paranormal way of communication that members of the same species have. I'm not...

I was reading a internet site about a parrot that supposely can interpt information about its owner from a distance. Is it true? Here is the site http: //www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/ for a better summary. Thanks in advance.

Scientific Community Unfair to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Imperial College London Dissertation Asserts Phillip Stevens of Imperial College London examines how normal scientific protocols are violated when controversial researchers publish their results. Faced with choosing a prominent figure for...

PZ Myers reports: James Randi spoke about Maddox at the Amazing Meeting two years ago, but youtube.com/AmazingMeetingVideos hasn't posted that video. The BBC reported on the event, which Randi spoke of: John Maddox on Rupert Sheldrake's work: aRjQmZLT8bI

I have the ability to detect when someone stares at me even from behind. I've read the rules and the FAQ. no media nor affidavit but working on it suggestion for the test: I'll be sitting in a public place looking in one direction. Many people around me. When someone stares at me, I'll detect...

At my high school, I'm enrolled in an AP World History class. We've finished both our textbook and our exams, so my teacher decided to shift the class's focus to postmodernism and how our perception of reality is changing. One of the major themes we are now exploring is how "enchanted" the world...

Rupert Sheldrake was stabbed by an "apparently" emotionally upset individual while giving a lecture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a minor wound according to reports. Details here: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Man-accused-of-stabbing speaker-at-La-Fonda

This is really quite odd: Santa Fe New Mexican: Police arrest suspect after attack at lecture April 2, 2008 Conference web page here: http://www.bizspirit.com/science/index.html

Due to some unknown reason, Rupert Sheldrake has been invited to talk at my academic department tomorrow (Thursday 6th). From the abstract, it's obvious that he will be dipping into the wibbly world of morphic fields. I'm obviously going to ask him about the $1m challenge, but I would also...

In another thread, we have been discussing Sheldrake and Smart's email telepathy experiments: http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Telepathy/email_telepathy.html It would be fairly simple to set up a replication experiment among a few of us JREFers. Is anyone game? ~~ Paul

While I am in general support of the aims of JREF, I was unimpressed by the Pigasus Award to Rupert Sheldrake for his telephone telepathy research (sorry, I've only just heard about this) and in particular for the justification provided for it. The justification provided is a link to the Sept 8...

Anyone over 25 and from the UK will probably remember the naff TV show That's Life, a sort of magazine style consumer show in which the hosts would go off and do battle with cowboy plumbers and such. The show would also feature people and their zany pets, for examples dogs saying "sausages" or...

Chris French is attempting to replicate Rupert Sheldrake's telephone telepathy nonsense. If you don't think it's nonsense (and you're in the UK), you can help out! Find out more here: http://ukskeptic.livejournal.com/185153.html

Although it takes someone with a good memory to remember that www.skepticalinvestigations.org is owned and run by one of the most outstanding loonies this board has ever had.

Perhaps quite an important point in light of Randi's criticism. Randi says the sample sizes in Sheldrakes latest email telepathy experiment was small. Only 50 people participated. True. However, each person did about 10 trials, making the total number trials 552. The exact binomial test was...

This is a split from the Telephone Telepathy Thread. Per Wikipedia, Rupert Sheldrake was educated at Cambridge University and currently receives funding (via the Perrott-Warwick Scholarship for psychical research and parapsychology) from Trinity College. Since I"m on the other side of the...

Dr. Sheldrake will be Tommy Boyd's guest on his BBC Southern Counties Radio show on Monday, 11 September from 1 pm. They'll be talking about human and animal telepathy. Live streaming is available here. I'm not sure if it's available to non UK residents, but the Podcast is updated daily...

On 'Material World', BBC Radio 4, 4:30 - 5:00 with Quentin Cooper has just hosted a discussion on the subject of telepathy. Well worth listening to. I know this subject is somewhere else on the MBs but I can't spot it just at the moment. I recommend 'Listening Again'.

Should Randi expect a call from Rupert Sheldrake?

I did a couple of searches and it appears that this article has not been discussed here. The link contains claims of statistically significant results from double blind tests for telepathy between species. It even claims publication in a peer-reviewed journal. It also involves Sheldrake...

I just got back from the first part of Rupert Sheldrake's lecture at California Lutheran University today. (His second part is on science and spirituality, so it probably won't have as many things relevant to this forum, but I'll post an update if there is). I unfortunately didn't take notes, so...

On November 9th Rupert Sheldrake, of telephone telepathy and psychic staring fame, is coming to California Lutheran University here in southern California for a pair of lectures. The first one is about his experiments, and the second one is about his spiritual life (the first one will be the...

Dear all, Here is an interesting exchange between Sheldrake and Randi regarding the psychic dog experiment with Jaytee, which you can read about at: http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Animals/dogvideo_abs.html Now here is what Sheldrake had to say about Randi's comments on the experiment...

Dear all, From my friend Michael Goodspeed's recent articles on paranormal claims and skeptics, I came across Rupert Sheldrake's site which had links to many papers describing experiments with psychic pets which seemed to have telepathic abilities. Here is one interesting one for you to...

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Not so, Rupe. Pigeons don't use "morphic fields" when they navigate. They follow the roads.

Hullo! I came across this article in my newspaper last week on Rupert Sheldrake's staring experiment (he claims he has proven that people can tell when they are being stared at): Globe and Mail Science : The Eyes Have It I dunno, it sounds kinda dodgy to me. If I could tell when I was being...