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Controversies Richard Dawkins
The crusading atheist visited Rupert in 2007 to interview him for his TV series Enemies of Reason: Skepticism
Healthy skepticism plays an important part in science, and stimulates research and critical thinking. Healthy skeptics are open-minded and interested in evidence. By contrast, dogmatic skeptics are committed to the belief that "paranormal" phenomena are impossible The Perrott-Warrick Public Debate - Does Telepathy Happen? Rupert debates with Prof Chris French, Prof Simon Blackburn in the chair Rupert at the BA Festival of Science UEA Norwich Sept 2-9th 2006 Rupert's paper on Telephone Telepathy was widely reported in the media and gave rise to a major controversy.
Full details, including press comments, audio interviews and discussions, and articles... Sheldrake and his Critics: The sense of being glared at. In this special edition of JCS Rupert summarises his case for the 'non-visual detection of staring'. His claims are scrutinised by fourteen critics, to whom Rupert then responds. The Telepathy Debate
Professor Lewis Wolpert, FRS took part with Rupert in a debate on
telepathy at the Royal Society of Arts in January 2004, which was
reported in Nature and can be heard online here. Is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptic Society, the host of the Skeptics' Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology, and the author of a regular column in Scientific American called "Skeptic". Conjurer and the former Principal Investigator of CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. He was named "Skeptic of the Century" in the January 2000 issue of The Skeptical Inquirer. For more on Randi's attempts to debunk Rupert's conclusions... Dr Richard Wiseman
Conjurer and professional Skeptic based at the
University of Hertfordshire in England, a Consultant Editor of The Skeptical Inquirer , and a Research Fellow of CSICOP. He attempted to debunk Rupert's work on dogs. However, he admitted in his recent Skeptiko interview, that his data does correspond with Sheldrake's. Dr David Marks CSICOP Fellow and professor at City University,
London. He is the author of The Psychology of the Psychic (2000), in
which he rejects a wide range of "paranormal" phenomena, including Rupert's research on the sense of being stared at. He attacked this research in
2000 in the Skeptical Inquirer in an article co-authored with John Colwell.
He attacked this research again in 2003 in The Skeptic, and also tried to explain away Rupert's work on return-anticipating dogs. Sir John Maddox, Emeritus Editor of the scientific journal Nature. Rupert's oldest critic, he was the author of the infamous "candidate for burning" editorial in Nature in 1981 about Rupert's first book, A New Science of Life Dr Robert A. Baker Retired psychology professor at the University of Kentucky, and a CSICOP Fellow. In the Skeptical Inquirer he dismissed the sense of being stared at as false. Robert Todd Carroll Robert Todd Carroll produces "The Skeptic's Dictionary" on the internet. According to his Wikipedia entry, he is a "longtime advocate of atheism and scientific skepticism". His Ph.D. is on a seventeeth century bishop, and he teaches philosophy at Sacramento City College. He made some misleading comments on morphic resonance and on research I conducted with Aimee Morgana on her parrot N'kisi, to which I reply here.
P.Z. Myers: Rupert in psi controversy "Expelling Sheldrake" The European Skeptics Congress 2005 Rupert was invited to speak at the 12th European Skeptics Congress in Brussels in October 2005 where there was a debate on telepathy with Dr. Jan Willem Nienhuys of the Dutch skeptic organisation. Rupert's complaint against National Geographic
Rupert refered the National Geographic TV Channel to Ofcom over their programme
"Is It Real? Psychic Animals" first broadcast in August 2005 Controversy in British Columbia Website skeptic Shannon Rupp objecting to Rupert's lecture at the University of British Columbia on 20th July 2006 inquired "Why is UBC promoting New Age pseudoscience?" |
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