Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science
by mr_overalls on Thursday June 09, 2016 @10:24AM
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Sheldrake's ideas of "morphic resonance" are the worst kind of pseudoscientific garbage. The man literally believes that insulin molecules inherit a collective memory from all insulin molecules that have existed in the past.
He has constructed a New Age world of fantasy based on a fundamentally new type of physical phenomenon that is completely unsupported by physicists.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and he has not delivered such evidence.
He has constructed a New Age world of fantasy based on a fundamentally new type of physical phenomenon that is completely unsupported by physicists.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and he has not delivered such evidence.