Rupert Sheldrake

Claims made

• Hoffman's planarian and Michael Levin's bioelectricity results are repeatedly borrowed on the show as evidence for non-local memory and morphic resonance, while Levin himself stays non-committal on mechanism — Sheldrake concedes exactly that on camera.

  FACT well-supported 2024

  • 1:13:09 Meet The Scientist BANNED By TED Talks (ft. Rupert Sheldrake) · Rupert Sheldrake ▶

    most people would go with the cellular interpretation point is about Michael Levan he's really pushing the boundaries

• Sheldrake's acetophenone mouse-fear inheritance reference matches Dias & Ressler (Nature Neuroscience, 2014), a real and contested epigenetic-inheritance result, which he uses as support for morphic resonance despite the authors framing it molecularly.

  FACT contested 2024

  • 1:09:27 Meet The Scientist BANNED By TED Talks (ft. Rupert Sheldrake) · Rupert Sheldrake ▶

    they took male mice and they made them frightened of a smell called

• Sheldrake's 'Is the Sun Conscious?' was published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies (2022), a peer-reviewed philosophy journal — a real publication that is not the natural-science imprimatur the episode's framing implies.

  FACT contested 2024

  • 0:34:30 Meet The Scientist BANNED By TED Talks (ft. Rupert Sheldrake) · Rupert Sheldrake ▶

    I wrote this paper called is the sun conscious which is published in the Journal of Consciousness studies which is a fairly mainstream journal to do with the nature of consciousness

• Sheldrake's 9/11 precognitive-dream collection (75+ dreams gathered within days via Village Voice ads and Washington Square posters) is a real dataset with an uncontrolled, self-selected design that cannot estimate a base rate.

  FACT thin 2024

  • 0:22:29 Meet The Scientist BANNED By TED Talks (ft. Rupert Sheldrake) · Rupert Sheldrake ▶

    with within 3 days I had posters up in