On Saturday, March 23, 2013 12:05:04 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com > <javascript:>>wrote: > > >> What bothers me, though, is precisely what is necessary to do nowadays to >> protect one's reputation. > > > To protect your scientific reputation you just need to get things right, > or at least don't give experimental evidence that later turns out to be > fraudulently or incompetently obtained. > > > Graham Hancock is talking about his personal experiences with ayahuasca. >> Do you believe he is lying? >> > > I don't know if he is a fool or a liar or both nor do I care about Graham > Hancock's claimed subjective experiences. > > > I'm not sure what it feels like, but it doesn't feel like freedom. >> > > Mr. Sheldrake is perfectly free to continue peddling his junk science as > much as he likes, its just that the TED organization has judged that his > talk does not meet their minimum quality standards and so will not sponsor > it. If you believe that TED's judgement was in error then you shouldn't > listen to TED talks in the future; I think TED demonstrated very good > judgement in this matter so I will continue to listen to talks they > sponsor. >
What if you think that TED's judgment was not merely 'in error' but intolerant and authoritarian? > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
