Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK
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TED have decided to censor
Rupert and remove this video from the TEDx youtube channel.
Follow this link for TED's statement on the matter and Dr. Sheldrake's response:
http://blog.ted.com/
2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/
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DR
RUPERT SHELDRAKE,
Ph.D. (born 28 June
1942) is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former
Research Fellow of the
Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at
Cambridge University, where he was a
Scholar of
Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the
University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy and history of science at
Harvard University, where he was a
Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to
Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of
Clare College, Cambridge, where he was
Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the
Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the
Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.
While at Cambridge, together with
Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.
From
1968 to
1969, based in the Botany
Department of the
University of Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From
1974 to
1985 he was
Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (
ICRISAT) in
Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in
India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr
Bede Griffiths in
Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A
New Science of
Life.
From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick
Project funded from
Trinity College,Cambridge. He is a Fellow of
Schumacher College , in
Dartington,
Devon, a Fellow of the
Institute of Noetic Sciences near
San Francisco, and a
Visiting Professor at the
Graduate Institute in
Connecticut.
He lives in
London with his wife
Jill Purce http://www.healingvoice.com and two sons.
He has appeared in many
TV programs in
Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants (along with
Stephen Jay Gould,
Daniel Dennett,
Oliver Sacks,
Freeman Dyson and
Stephen Toulmin) in a
TV series called
A Glorious Accident, shown on
PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in
BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the
Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column,
The Times,
Sunday Telegraph,
Daily Mirror,
Daily Mail,
Sunday Times,
Times Educational Supplement,
Times Higher Education Supplement and
Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including
New Scientist,
Resurgence, the
Ecologist and the
Spectator.
Books by
Rupert Sheldrake:
A New Science of Life: The
Hypothesis of Formative Causation (
1981). New edition 2009 (in the US published as
Morphic Resonance)
The Presence of the
Past: Morphic Resonance and the
Habits of
Nature (
1988)
The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of
Science and God (
1992)
Seven Experiments that Could
Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself
Guide to
Revolutionary Science (
1994) (
Winner of the
Book of the Year
Award from the
British Institute for
Social Inventions)
Dogs that Know When Their Owners are
Coming Home, and Other
Unexplained Powers of
Animals (
1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the
British Scientific and Medical
Network)
The
Sense of Being Stared At, And
Other Aspects of the
Extended Mind (
2003)
With
Ralph Abraham and
Terence McKenna:
Trialogues at the
Edge of the
West (1992), republished as
Chaos,
Creativity and
Cosmic Consciousness (
2001)
The Evolutionary
Mind (
1998)
With
Matthew Fox:
Natural Grace:
Dialogues on Science and
Spirituality (
1996)
The Physics of
Angels: Exploring the
Realm Where Science and
Spirit Meet (1996)
http://www.sheldrake.org/
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