-----Original Message----- From: David M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MD] Falling out of Time/Space
Hi Krim > [Krimel] > In 1981 Nature editor John Maddox said in a review that Sheldrake's first > book "...is the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." > The comment has been widely quoted and cause a big controversy. > > After reflecting on his comments for more than 10 years Maddox clarified > his thinking in a 1994 BBC documentary. > > "I was so offended by it, that I said that while it's wrong that books > should be burned, in practice, if book burning were allowed, this book > > would be a candidate (...) I think it's dangerous that people should be > allowed by our liberal societies to put that kind of nonsense into > currency." > DM: Funny, Maddox's reaction seems awful to me, surely science requires exploring new ideas and hypotheses, most of course will prove to be not very useful. What is so threatening about unorthodox ideas to people like Maddox? There is nothing incoherent or unreasoned about Shledrake's proposals even if they may prove to have no future as seems to be the case. Clearly nothing needed burning, only reading and ignoring, a more civilised approach I'd say. Rathe dumb and hysterical rhetoric I'd suggest. [Krimel] All I know of Sheldrake is what I have heard him say and it strikes me as pure rubbish. If he has the quality and quantity of research that he claims then he would not be constantly whining about conspiracies to keep the man down. As I said I thought Maddox was being overly kind. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
