Kevin Daly
Skilled Investigator
It'd be interesting to hear Sheldrake talk about Morphic Resonance and his more recent telepathy experiments.
The man is definitely not a fool - there's a good bit in this interview on Skeptiko (http://www.skeptiko.com/response-by-dr-rupert-sheldrake/) where he makes his case particularly vividly in talking about the type of experimental controls that make the subjects feel like cheats:
Then you create conditions of nervousness that interfere with the phenomenon. It’s rather like saying to Chris French or somebody else, you claim you can have an erection. I want you to prove it right now, on camera, on demand. And then have people with clipboards sitting around saying, “Right. I want to see it right now.”
That's an argument that can of course be abused by charlatans, but it makes a good point nevertheless.
The man is definitely not a fool - there's a good bit in this interview on Skeptiko (http://www.skeptiko.com/response-by-dr-rupert-sheldrake/) where he makes his case particularly vividly in talking about the type of experimental controls that make the subjects feel like cheats:
Then you create conditions of nervousness that interfere with the phenomenon. It’s rather like saying to Chris French or somebody else, you claim you can have an erection. I want you to prove it right now, on camera, on demand. And then have people with clipboards sitting around saying, “Right. I want to see it right now.”
That's an argument that can of course be abused by charlatans, but it makes a good point nevertheless.
But I think he'd be a tough guest to get. He stays pretty busy.
