This
is of interest to me because of the materialist attack on alternative
views. It appears that TED have been forced to reverse their earlier
stand.
The
war of ideas
From
Graham Hancock's page
Unprecedented
developments at TED
"I
appreciate and respect the fact that TED have now bitten the bullet
-- which cannot have been easy for them -- and fully retracted their
original incorrect allegations against the content of my TEDx
presentation "The War on Consciousness". They have done so
by crossing out the original allegations and publishing my rebuttal
here:
http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/
"They
have done the same as regards their original incorrect allegations
against the content of the TEDx presentation "The Science
Delusion" by my colleague Rupert Sheldrake.
"TED
have also opened up a new blog page ("Graham Hancock and Rupert
Sheldrake A Fresh Take") here:
http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/18/graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake-a-fresh-take/
"I
want to put on record my immense appreciation and respect for the
tremendous efforts made by so many members of my online community to
get this injustice righted by their engagement on the TED website and
the blog posts they have made there. I am touched and heartened,
buoyed up and encouraged by this remarkable level of support and it
is a sign of the times that our voice has been heard.
TED
continue to refuse to restore the talks to the original platform on
which they appeared -- the TEDx Youtube channel -- where my talk had
been viewed by more than 132,000 people and where Rupert's talk had
been viewed by more than 35,000 people before TED took them down. I
regard it as unfortunate in the extreme that all the conversations
and comments that appeared there have been hidden along with the
talks, and that those original links have been broken, and I will
continue to press for the restitution of our talks to the TEDx
Youtube channel separate from and in addition to the presence they
now have on the TED blog pages."
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