and I presume your opinion is based on second hand sources who either refuse to discuss the evidence or give false testimony about it (on ideological grounds), rather than direct familiarity with the recent scientific work of Sheldrake.

To put short, he's been lately concentrating on telepathy, beginning from looking at anecdotal evidence to find the most common natural settings of the claims of the phenomenon, and then testing those phenomena - such as notice of someone staring you from behind, guessing who calls on telephone, various phenomena of animal telepathy - with scientific rigor. The results have been statistically very significant and repeated by other researchers.