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Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended by some as a provocative critique of scientific dogma, and also cited as the talk TED pulled.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- James Dearden Bush
- Topic
- philosophy of science
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I think this shows scientific institutions and advocates in a bad light. Rupert Sheldrake had a great TED talk on the dogma's of modern science, and was even further legitimized when a private council of TED banned the talk. Link: [VIDEO]
tokenizer on Hacker News · 2013-12
In Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers?An interesting (banned) TEDx talk by Rupert Sheldrake, one part on the changing "fundamental constants", starting here: [VIDEO] The other parts are a bit "woo" and I'm sure would be laughed at by the HN crowd. But his points about fundamental "constants" changing, and the …
cpr on Hacker News · 2017-07
In NIST to redefine the kilogram based on a fundamental universal constant
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