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Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK

James Dearden Bush · talk · Watch on YouTube

Scientific method & science communicationReligion, belief & skepticism

What it is

A re-upload of Rupert Sheldrake's TEDx talk The Science Delusion, which TED removed from its channel. He challenges what he calls the dogmas of modern science, including whether fundamental constants are constant.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended by some as a provocative critique of scientific dogma, and also cited as the talk TED pulled.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Rupert Sheldrake had a great TED talk on the dogma's of modern science”

    Sheldrake TED talk on dogmas of modern science

    tokenizer, 2013-12 · Recommendation · in “Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers?”

  2. “his points about fundamental "constants" changing, and the metrologists' dogmatic (really, anti-scientific) response, are worth pondering.”

    Sheldrake on changing fundamental constants

    cpr, 2017-07 · Recommendation · in “NIST to redefine the kilogram based on a fundamental universal constant”

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Topics: rupert sheldrake, ted, scientific dogma, consciousness, fundamental constants

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