TEDx Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake at TEDx Whitechapel

They dared question the Scientistic Orthodoxy, and for that they have been publicly castigated and defamed. BIORupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. (born 28 June 1942) is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and...

They dared question the Scientistic Orthodoxy, and for that they
have been publicly castigated and defamed.

BIORupert Sheldrake,
Ph.D. (born 28 June 1942) is a biologist and author of more than 80
scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the
Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University,
where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class
honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then
studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University,
where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge,
where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare
College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry
and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal
Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and
the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge
University.While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he
discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by
which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the
roots.From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants.
From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant
Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the
Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped
develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in
India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede
Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New
Science of Life.From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the
Perrott-Warrick Project funded from Trinity College,Cambridge. He is
a Fellow of Schumacher College , in Dartington, Devon, a Fellow of
the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, and a Visiting
Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut.He lives in
London with his wife Jill Purce and two sons.He has appeared in many
TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants
(along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks, Freeman
Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious
Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often
taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for
newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly
column, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail,
Sunday Times, Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education
Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a
variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the
Ecologist and the Spectator.Books by Rupert SheldrakeA New Science
of Life The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981). New edition
2009 (in the US published as Morphic Resonance)The Presence of the
Past Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)The Rebirth
of Nature The Greening of Science and God (1992)Seven Experiments
that Could Change the World A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary
Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the
British Institute for Social Inventions)Dogs that Know When Their
Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
(1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British
Scientific and Medical Network)The Sense of Being Stared At, And
Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)The Science Delusion (2012,
published in the US as Science Set Free)