There is an interesting article on Suppressed Science about the bizarre belief that science has just about gotten it all wrapped up. Many scientists believe that they are somehow on the verge of knowing everything. I know that sounds laughable but this is a real position taken by many within the scientific community. Here is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
Chris Carter is on this week's Skeptiko podcast. Rupert Sheldrake wrote the Forward to Carter's book Parapsychology & The Skeptics and said this of the book: "A masterly guide to the frontiers of science, belief and exploration. Carter leads us through the interplays of dogma, speculation and empirical research in a stimulating way. The controversy [...]
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Sheldrake has written the Forward for a new book, Parapsychology and The Skeptics, by Chris Carter (not the X-Files Chris Carter), on the history of dogmatic skepticism and parapsychology. The book opens with a very interesting anecdote from the seventeenth century - when people believed that balls of fire came hurtling to Earth from space [...]
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Monday, April 14, 2008
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