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I am disgusted by the incompetence and arrogance gathered in this article hoping to suffocate progress. This is not what Wikipedia should be for, you dare talk below about facts, but facts are REPRESSED AND REMOVED from the article. Here some BASICS that the article fails to honestly mention:
1. MOST IMPORTANTLY, Sheldrake is a proved high standing SCIENTIST. He studied biology and got his PhD from Cambridge, where he was sharing a house and frequenting some of the most brilliant minds of the time. At the beginning of his career he did way opening "main stream" research, which led to the fact the two of his papers were published in Nature, an achievement that most standing professors still dream of. PLEASE mention this and stop lying about him, as if he was just an "author"
2. Sheldrake decided to go his own way, being interested in phenomena for which there was no funding in academia, but he proceeded to be inventive and extremely cautious in EMPIRICAL SCIENCE. If he talks about evidence for the phenomena -- objective, seriously measured phenomena -- to which the morphogenetic field is just an ad interim PROPOSAL of an explanation, because the phenomena are not explained in present science, and the telephathy belong, his statistical support is so accurate, that I could only dream that the propaganda around covid had been supported by statistical evidence only 10% as accurate as Sheldrake's. I am sure that the ignorant contributors who dare cut explanations in favor of Sheldrake and spread difamation have no slight experience, never read a book or followed a complete conference of Sheldrake. To answer a question raised below by Thinker78 ( talk · contribs): the only funding for study of parapsychological pheonomena, to what I know, comes from Koestler's funding of the society for the study of parapsychological phenomena. So yes, there have been empirical studies, but Sheldrake is leading by the extensivity and accuracy of his experiments, as well as the inventivity used. Nobody was abled to find flaws in his empirical studies, which why they go ad hominem directly, precisely as this page does.
3. His empirical facts on the morphogenetic field are impressive enough, for having motivated research by many other main stream scientists, who diversified the realm of observations -- but kept low profile, for understandable reason. He is not alone! I must take the time to present at least the basic of the empirical evidence that lead to the explanation ATTEMPT by the (consciently) vague notion of morphogenetic field. What multiple experiments prove is a SURPRIZING AND UNEXPLAINED non-local spread of knowledge from the experience of solving certain riddles. The typical experiments involve some labor animals who either work their way out of complex labirinths, or succeed to remove their food-reward from an intricate system of containers, achievements which all required many days and weeks for the first experiment subject to SOLVE. What happens is that when repeating the experiment with the same kind of animals, and the same challenge, in various remote locations, the time for solving the riddle dramatically drops, slowly to half or less of the initial time. It never increases. And this despite of the fact that any physical kind of information transmission is totally excluded. So this is a repetitive indication that something happens that goes against probabilities, and suggest a non local "storage of collective information of the species". Now that is empirical science of the best, and it was taken over by more teams -- yet a solid theory is certainly still out of reach. But facts OBLIGE us to accept SOMETHING IS GOING ON. So stop difamating the morphogenetic field explanation, or do your home work and explain what it is and why you feel so self-certain (NOT BY QUOTATIONS, PLEASE, by FACTS).
4. You completely fail to mention a fundamental book of Sheldrake, "The science delusion" in which he individuates and explains 10 fundamental unstated axioms that are hidden behind the main stream sceintific view of life and the Universe. Noone could prove him wrong, this why you preferred not to mention the book, not having base for difamation.
I have not more time to go into detail, but must say that I am appaled by the insiduousness of ignorant contributors who obviously have the say also in REMOVING positive information, in order to maintain the overall difamatory style of the page. I propose to these ignorants to make their own site called WikInquisition, since THIS is what their level of undersanding and intelligence is! Wikipedia initially intended to educate, not to cenzor and difamate -- for this main stream media suffices! — PredaMi ( talk) 09:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Never use headings to attack other users. -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 10:57, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Derogatory comments about other editors may be removed by any editorThat exactly fits the original header: it equated the editors of this article with mass murderers.
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Only this time in a more modern form, a symbolic crucifixion through an attempt at moral murder, which according to the Laws of God is no less punishable than physical murder.
It solidifies Sheldrake as the most serious challenger to materialist philosophy in the modern world.
— it's not written inside the article, so not actionable. Just a general reminder: if you keep your metaphysics unfalsifiable (i.e. make no predicaments about medicine and hard sciences), then mainstream science or mainstream medicine can neither endorse nor reject your metaphysics.
What Sheldrake does not get is that philosophy/metaphysics aren't part of science. tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Reviewing the book, Susan Blackmore criticised Sheldrake for comparing the 12 tests of random duration—which were all less than an hour long—to the initial tests where the dog may have been responding to patterns in the owner's journeys. Blackmore interpreted the results of the randomised tests as starting with a period where the dog "settles down and does not bother to go to the window," and then showing that the longer the owner was away, the more the dog went to look. [1]
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In response to Susan Blackmore's critique, Rupert Sheldrake re-examined his twelve experiments. He found the percentage of time Jaytee spent by the window in the main period of Pam's absence was lower when the first hour was exluded than when it was included. Sheldrake noted, "Taking Blackmore's objection into account strengthens rather than weakens the evidence for Jaytee knowing when his owner was coming home, and increases the statistical significance of the comparison." [2]
I believe I got the reference formatting correct although I'm not sure if '.' are allowed in the 'volume' field. Let me know. Jmancthree ( talk) 04:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Quotes that are controversial or potentially misleading need to be properly contextualized to avoid unintentional endorsement or deprecation. What is more, just because a quote is accurate and verifiably attributed to a particular source does not mean that the quote must necessarily be included in an article. The sourced contribution must simply aid in the verifiable and neutral presentation of the subject.
Reviewing the book, Susan Blackmore criticised Sheldrake for comparing the 12 tests of random duration—which were all less than an hour long—to the initial tests where the dog may have been responding to patterns in the owner's journeys. Blackmore interpreted the results of the randomised tests as starting with a period where the dog "settles down and does not bother to go to the window," and then showing that the longer the owner was away, the more the dog went to look., it is only fair that Sheldrake's rebuttal should be provided, in a neutral fashion, otherwise this is just another way for Wikipedia editors to further debunk Sheldrake and deny him redress. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 09:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
he found: No. That's a claim he's making in his defense, with no independent verification. -- Hipal ( talk) 17:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy does not state or imply that every minority view, fringe theory, or extraordinary claim needs to be presented along with commonly accepted mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity.
along mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity. This means not to give the fringe theory equal validity as the mainstream scholarship, it does not preclude inclusion of fringe theory material. The policy does not state, it does not need to be presented along mainstream scholarship, as if they were of equal validity. Notice the comma that is not in the actual policy. This has a different meaning than the current policy, namely, it implies that including fringe theory material would provide for their equal validity with mainstream scholarship, which is not necessarily the case.
it is only fair that Sheldrake's rebuttal should be provided, in a neutral fashiondoes not fly. -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 07:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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@ Hipal, other interested, hello. About [1]. What counts as press/media org in this day and age is a bit of a grey area, reasonable people can disagree. My view per [2] is that the item [3] fits the talkpage template well enough. The addition does not indicate "this is a WP:RS", or "WP supports this coverage", just "this coverage exists". Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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I am disgusted by the incompetence and arrogance gathered in this article hoping to suffocate progress. This is not what Wikipedia should be for, you dare talk below about facts, but facts are REPRESSED AND REMOVED from the article. Here some BASICS that the article fails to honestly mention:
1. MOST IMPORTANTLY, Sheldrake is a proved high standing SCIENTIST. He studied biology and got his PhD from Cambridge, where he was sharing a house and frequenting some of the most brilliant minds of the time. At the beginning of his career he did way opening "main stream" research, which led to the fact the two of his papers were published in Nature, an achievement that most standing professors still dream of. PLEASE mention this and stop lying about him, as if he was just an "author"
2. Sheldrake decided to go his own way, being interested in phenomena for which there was no funding in academia, but he proceeded to be inventive and extremely cautious in EMPIRICAL SCIENCE. If he talks about evidence for the phenomena -- objective, seriously measured phenomena -- to which the morphogenetic field is just an ad interim PROPOSAL of an explanation, because the phenomena are not explained in present science, and the telephathy belong, his statistical support is so accurate, that I could only dream that the propaganda around covid had been supported by statistical evidence only 10% as accurate as Sheldrake's. I am sure that the ignorant contributors who dare cut explanations in favor of Sheldrake and spread difamation have no slight experience, never read a book or followed a complete conference of Sheldrake. To answer a question raised below by Thinker78 ( talk · contribs): the only funding for study of parapsychological pheonomena, to what I know, comes from Koestler's funding of the society for the study of parapsychological phenomena. So yes, there have been empirical studies, but Sheldrake is leading by the extensivity and accuracy of his experiments, as well as the inventivity used. Nobody was abled to find flaws in his empirical studies, which why they go ad hominem directly, precisely as this page does.
3. His empirical facts on the morphogenetic field are impressive enough, for having motivated research by many other main stream scientists, who diversified the realm of observations -- but kept low profile, for understandable reason. He is not alone! I must take the time to present at least the basic of the empirical evidence that lead to the explanation ATTEMPT by the (consciently) vague notion of morphogenetic field. What multiple experiments prove is a SURPRIZING AND UNEXPLAINED non-local spread of knowledge from the experience of solving certain riddles. The typical experiments involve some labor animals who either work their way out of complex labirinths, or succeed to remove their food-reward from an intricate system of containers, achievements which all required many days and weeks for the first experiment subject to SOLVE. What happens is that when repeating the experiment with the same kind of animals, and the same challenge, in various remote locations, the time for solving the riddle dramatically drops, slowly to half or less of the initial time. It never increases. And this despite of the fact that any physical kind of information transmission is totally excluded. So this is a repetitive indication that something happens that goes against probabilities, and suggest a non local "storage of collective information of the species". Now that is empirical science of the best, and it was taken over by more teams -- yet a solid theory is certainly still out of reach. But facts OBLIGE us to accept SOMETHING IS GOING ON. So stop difamating the morphogenetic field explanation, or do your home work and explain what it is and why you feel so self-certain (NOT BY QUOTATIONS, PLEASE, by FACTS).
4. You completely fail to mention a fundamental book of Sheldrake, "The science delusion" in which he individuates and explains 10 fundamental unstated axioms that are hidden behind the main stream sceintific view of life and the Universe. Noone could prove him wrong, this why you preferred not to mention the book, not having base for difamation.
I have not more time to go into detail, but must say that I am appaled by the insiduousness of ignorant contributors who obviously have the say also in REMOVING positive information, in order to maintain the overall difamatory style of the page. I propose to these ignorants to make their own site called WikInquisition, since THIS is what their level of undersanding and intelligence is! Wikipedia initially intended to educate, not to cenzor and difamate -- for this main stream media suffices! — PredaMi ( talk) 09:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Never use headings to attack other users. -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 10:57, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Derogatory comments about other editors may be removed by any editorThat exactly fits the original header: it equated the editors of this article with mass murderers.
References
Only this time in a more modern form, a symbolic crucifixion through an attempt at moral murder, which according to the Laws of God is no less punishable than physical murder.
It solidifies Sheldrake as the most serious challenger to materialist philosophy in the modern world.
— it's not written inside the article, so not actionable. Just a general reminder: if you keep your metaphysics unfalsifiable (i.e. make no predicaments about medicine and hard sciences), then mainstream science or mainstream medicine can neither endorse nor reject your metaphysics.
What Sheldrake does not get is that philosophy/metaphysics aren't part of science. tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
After the current text:
Reviewing the book, Susan Blackmore criticised Sheldrake for comparing the 12 tests of random duration—which were all less than an hour long—to the initial tests where the dog may have been responding to patterns in the owner's journeys. Blackmore interpreted the results of the randomised tests as starting with a period where the dog "settles down and does not bother to go to the window," and then showing that the longer the owner was away, the more the dog went to look. [1]
Add the following text right after:
In response to Susan Blackmore's critique, Rupert Sheldrake re-examined his twelve experiments. He found the percentage of time Jaytee spent by the window in the main period of Pam's absence was lower when the first hour was exluded than when it was included. Sheldrake noted, "Taking Blackmore's objection into account strengthens rather than weakens the evidence for Jaytee knowing when his owner was coming home, and increases the statistical significance of the comparison." [2]
I believe I got the reference formatting correct although I'm not sure if '.' are allowed in the 'volume' field. Let me know. Jmancthree ( talk) 04:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Quotes that are controversial or potentially misleading need to be properly contextualized to avoid unintentional endorsement or deprecation. What is more, just because a quote is accurate and verifiably attributed to a particular source does not mean that the quote must necessarily be included in an article. The sourced contribution must simply aid in the verifiable and neutral presentation of the subject.
Reviewing the book, Susan Blackmore criticised Sheldrake for comparing the 12 tests of random duration—which were all less than an hour long—to the initial tests where the dog may have been responding to patterns in the owner's journeys. Blackmore interpreted the results of the randomised tests as starting with a period where the dog "settles down and does not bother to go to the window," and then showing that the longer the owner was away, the more the dog went to look., it is only fair that Sheldrake's rebuttal should be provided, in a neutral fashion, otherwise this is just another way for Wikipedia editors to further debunk Sheldrake and deny him redress. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 09:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
he found: No. That's a claim he's making in his defense, with no independent verification. -- Hipal ( talk) 17:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy does not state or imply that every minority view, fringe theory, or extraordinary claim needs to be presented along with commonly accepted mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity.
along mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity. This means not to give the fringe theory equal validity as the mainstream scholarship, it does not preclude inclusion of fringe theory material. The policy does not state, it does not need to be presented along mainstream scholarship, as if they were of equal validity. Notice the comma that is not in the actual policy. This has a different meaning than the current policy, namely, it implies that including fringe theory material would provide for their equal validity with mainstream scholarship, which is not necessarily the case.
it is only fair that Sheldrake's rebuttal should be provided, in a neutral fashiondoes not fly. -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 07:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
References
@ Hipal, other interested, hello. About [1]. What counts as press/media org in this day and age is a bit of a grey area, reasonable people can disagree. My view per [2] is that the item [3] fits the talkpage template well enough. The addition does not indicate "this is a WP:RS", or "WP supports this coverage", just "this coverage exists". Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)