New interview with Rupert Sheldrake

If you've read The New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson, you know that there is quite a bit of ink about Rupert Sheldrake and his theories. 

Infinite Loops -- the podcast of investor, philanthropist and RAW fan  Jim O’Shaughnessy -- has a new episode up, an interview of Rupert Sheldrake. Available at the link and you can also download a transcript.

Early in the interview, after a discussion about Sir John Maddox and his denunciations of Sheldrake:

Jim O’Shaughnessy: There's a wonderful book, I don't know if you've read it, by Robert Anton Wilson, called The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science.

Rupert Sheldrake: Yes, I have read it. Yes. I mean it is a very good account of this thing. I mean, it is not just me and it's not just Maddox. It's a much bigger issue really as Wilson points out.

Hat tip: Mike Gathers. 

RAW interviews Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake (Creative Commons photo)

This is yet another rediscovery by the hard working Martin Wagner: RAW interviews Rupert Sheldrake.

One point that I noticed when I looked at the Wikipedia article about Sheldrake: In the introductory paragraphs before the interview begins, RAW zeroes in on the magazine Nature for calling for Sheldrake's first book to be burned. The Wikipedia article says that the guy who wrote the Nature piece denouncing Sheldrake, John Maddox, admits that although he ultimately wrote that the book should not be burned, the headline and some statements played into Sheldrake's hands: "The publicists for Sheldrake's publishers were nevertheless delighted with the piece, using it to suggest that the Establishment (Nature) was again up to its old trick of suppressing uncomfortable truths."