Rupert Sheldrake: Science Set Free

Thoughts on science from Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author of Science Set Free.

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  • Sacred Song, and Where to Find it 3 March 2016
    From Resurgence & Ecologist, Jan/Feb 2016, page 56

    I was an atheist when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge and for several years afterwards, yet I still went to choral evensong because I found it so inspiring and uplifting. Whatever your religious faith, or l
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  • The Replicability Crisis in Science 12 January 2016
    Nature, September 1, 2015. Reproduced by courtesy of Nature Publishing Group.
    The world of science is in the midst of unprecedented soul-searching at present. The credibility of science rests on the widespread assumption that results are replicable, and that high st
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  • Epigenetics and Soviet Biology 29 May 2014
    One of the biggest controversies in twentieth-century biology was about the inheritance of acquired characteristics, the ability of animals and plants to inherit adaptations acquired by their ancestors. For example, if a dog was terrified of butchers because he had been
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  • Family Orchards 10 October 2013

    Resurgence & Ecologist
    Sep/Oct 2013
    Resurgence & Ecologist 2013
    by Rupert Sheldrake

    When I was growing up in Nottinghamshire, I was fortunate to have not just one but two secret gardens. The first was from my earliest years. Near the centre of my h



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  • Wikipedia Under Threat 5 October 2013
    Wikipedia is a wonderful invention. But precisely because it's so trusted and convenient, people with their own agendas keep trying to take it over. Editing wars are common. According to researchers at Oxford University, the most controversial subjects worldwide include
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  • Setting Science Free from Materialism 7 July 2013
    Explore 2013, Vol. 9
    Explore 2013; 9:211-218
    by Rupert Sheldrake
    PDF

    Contemporary science is based on the claim that all reality is material or physical. There is no reality but material reality. Consciousness is a by-product of the physical activ


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  • Thinking of Someone and Then Meeting Unexpectedly 30 June 2013
    In the course of my research on the unexplained human abilities, more than 150 people have told me about an experience that I had never before seen discussed. To their surprise, they thought about a friend or acquaintance for no particular reason, and then shortly aft
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  • The Active Voice 9 June 2013
    The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. Many people have already made this change, but some teachers in schools and universities do not realise that they and their
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  • Rat Learning and Morphic Resonance 7 April 2013

    An excerpt from Chapter 11 of A New Science of Life

    In mechanistic biology, a sharp distinction is drawn between innate and learned behaviour: the former is assumed to be 'genetically programmed' or 'coded' in the DNA, while the latter is supposed to result fro
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  • How the Universal Gravitational Constant Varies 21 January 2013
    Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. Some constants are considered to be more fundamental than others, including the velocity of light c and the Universal Gravitational Constant, known to physicists as Big G. Unlik
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  • The New Scientific Revolution 14 December 2012
    Before 2012 slips away it's worth remembering that this is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn's hugely influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was itself revolut

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  • The Crop Circle Making Competition 9 September 2010
    Resembling some vast extra-terrestrial printed circuit board, competition entries viewed from a helicopter. Some idea of the immense scale involved may be had by spotting the man on the ground, midway up the left of frame. The feeble effort by circle sceptic, arch-rat
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