Science and Pseudoscience on the Internet with Craig Weiler

Craig Weiler is a parapsychology journalist and the author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet. He also hosts the Weiler Psi blog. His website is https://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/

Here he discusses the controversies that occurred when TED talks by biologist Rupert Sheldrake and writer Graham Hancock were removed due to pressure from individuals proclaiming themselves as scientific skeptics. He also explains the process by which similar zealots have come to dominate Wikipedia. He argues that open discussion of new or unpopular ideas is more effective than censorship.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on August 8, 2020)

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LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW:

Rupert Sheldrake, The Science Delusion – https://amzn.to/3iCLQlc

P. Z. Myers, The Happy Atheist – https://amzn.to/2DWlMml

Brian Josephson (Ed.), Consciousness and the Physical World –

Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity – https://amzn.to/3h1RdtM

Graham Hancock, Supernatural – https://amzn.to/347RxDB

Russell Targ, The Reality of ESP – https://amzn.to/3g7ErsA

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion – https://amzn.to/2PTdXAc

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