In the discussion thread: Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion [View all]
Response to cbayer (Original post)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 01:52 PM
LeftishBrit (40,913 posts)
6. Maybe - but one of the best-known practitioners of bad science is Rupert Sheldrake himself
He is a great promoter of telepathy and other phenomena of parapsychology; and of even more bizarre theories that indicate that memory is not stored specifically through neural connections in the brain, but is inherent to all organically formed structures and systems; that memories can be passed on from one generation to the next; and that physical and mental characteristics are not based on genes (or on environment in the usual sense) but by 'morphic resonance', where organisms have some sort of intrinsic influence on other organisms of the same species. I suspect that when he complains that scientists are not sufficiently 'open-minded', he really means that they won't accept his own bizarre and non-evidence-based theories.
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