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Rupert gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label.
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The phrase "It's science." Has become its own iron clad explanation. This is ironically used to stop people from questioning things. The antithesis of science.
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Remember: Science as a method and science as an institution are two very different things. At some point, I'm going to make a video on this very topic, explaining in detail why that is so.
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Science is not our deity, it is our collective knowledge of tangible things that we can presently perceive. It is an excellent tool for our prosperity, when accurate, but it is only ever a tool.
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It's important to remember in science that you shouldn't just ask "why" but also "what-if"
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I'm not on board with his hypotheses, but he is asking the right questions. That's the whole point of science: question everything.
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The use of science as a weapon to prevent inquiry has always struck me as the most back-asswards bastardization of a system for the sake of securing both funds and egos that Iāve ever seen.
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I'd firstly like to preface that this video isn't necessarily a bad one. As a researcher, I agree pop science spins these overly simplistic and wrong conclusions about the philosophy of science as well as the methods/discoveries. Science communication is very difficult and people should question this and our current results.
However, the speaker is doing the exact same thing he is criticizing. Being overly reductive (multiple times with the big bang while not digging deeper), putting forth fringe or tenuous explanations as true (crystal memory is not really memory. It is nucleation, a concept from general chemistry), and prefacing to a nebulous "evidence" for said explanations.
There is something to be said for actively questioning our current understanding. This is a basis of everyone's research, to varying degrees. For instance, with the speed of light supposedly changing, part of it is due to different observation methods that may have other sources of error or phenomena that change results. We do currently research the disparity in calculations of the speed of light. It's one of the biggest open problems in cosmology that we ACTIVELY RESEARCH IN COSMOLOGY. The fact the speaker went to a scientist not in this field of research and immediately takes his word and extrapolates it to all scientists is rather reductive.
I don't believe the speaker has truly questioned these hypotheses without checking his biases. He stops at a shoddy explanation from a non-expert and then places that explanation on science. This is going halfway with your inquiries! You should push further, you should work with the experts and bring questions! But don't stop at one bad explanation or one non-expert. The first thing us researchers do when studying a problem is to see if anyone's studied or solved it before. The speaker has not done this effectively.
Regardless, I beg of people here to watch other videos on this topic. A great starting point would be from @acollierastro. She makes great videos on similar topics. I hope everyone here has a fantastic day and keeps questioning about our own knowledge. Science should be a collaboration for everyone, not just researchers.
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"Give us one free miracle and we will figure out the rest"
Thats a good one tbh š
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EVERY time someone says you canāt question something, theyāre probably trying to protect their own power and not let you threaten it.
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Whether or not I agree with his personal theories, I absolutely appreciate the ability to listen and consider new perspectives
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The problem is that the "dogmas" he mentions are just the most plausible explanations we have for various problems. The conservation of energy (and matter), for example, is just based on the fact that we haven't found any situation that breaks this rule, so we assume it is universal. Another example is the brain: if it is damaged you can lose memory, so it is logical to think that memory is stored in there. Why the hell should we assume otherwise?
In the end, we make assumptions based on the informations that we have, it's not like someone randomly made these up.
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Science needs paradigms to move forward. Those paradigms simply are guidelines to help us explore the universe in a systematic, repeatable, and verifiable fashion. However, all paradigms will at some point be replaced by others as our understanding of the universe deepens. It certianly does not mean that science isn't reliable. On the contrary, science's ability to question paradigms and force "paradigm shifts" is the very reason why it is the most reliable exploratory method we have.
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In my experience in college and having to work in departments that call themselves a science, I have personally experienced that academics are some of the most closed minded and dogmatic individuals who are so disconnected from the world and other people within it, and are so certain that they know the answer to everything, despite the scientific method being a philosophical method of enquiry, discovery, but not certainty
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As a STEM graduate, one of the first things i was taught was to never take a fact at face value without first looking at the evidence and the methods by which it was gathered.
Sadly many scientists prefer not to do that.
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I'd like to see examples for each time he says "in fact there's a great deal of evidence" or similar phrases.
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What it boils down to is ādonāt stop questioning the universeā. We know enough now to know that we donāt know anything.
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That a Ted Talk questioning scientific dogma is itself banned is a great indicator of the existence of scientific dogma
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I've personally been thinking about this subject for a while now. Many fields of science have interested me since I was a kid, and I am definitely not "anti-science" by any means. But over the years I've begun to notice that most of the scientific world subscribes uncompromisingly to the materialistic view, almost to the point of it being a religion in its own right. Many scientists have become rigid and dogmatic, anything that might go against their materialistic views is not bothered with, and anyone who does study these things are not given much credence. I would think that as a scientist, you would want to find the truth, and to do so, study all possible avenues.
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I like his point that the speed of light being subjectively defined as a constant is a bit silly thing to do and that what we think of as constants might be changing. I don't really like his point about telepathy, but I'm all for discussing things like this. I'm not upset that he holds that position, and I definitely don't think he should be sensored.
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I recently met with Rupert in London in order to revive this banned Ted Talk from 10 years ago. We were initially going to re-record this presentation, but in the end, we decided that the original censored Ted Talk was more powerful. Please comment & share this video. If you want to learn more, check out Rupert Sheldrake's book, "The Science Delusion" and if you want to help create more videos like this, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Thank you. www.patreon.com/AfterSkool
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