Introducing Rupert Sheldrake (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, March 22, 2015, 14:25 (3326 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: A very long but very interesting and refreshing interview. I'm afraid I skipped a lot of the specialist stuff, but here are just a couple of other snippets that attracted my attention:
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> Re psychic phenomena:
> “In my various encounters with skeptics like Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Daniel Dennett, and Michael Shermer, I have found that they have no interest in looking at the evidence because they know in advance it must be false. In other words, their position is one of prejudice rather than open-minded scientific enquiry. In that sense, I think they are deeply anti-scientific.”
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> An interesting observation, which I have no doubt applies to other spheres of study too!-I should have included this snippet above (which I had enjoyed while reading the essay) when I introduced the article. Those mentioned are indeed anti-scientific.