Comments on: Purveyor of woo, Rupert Sheldrake, stabbed http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/ Antievolutionist nonsense, science, and whatever else I wish to hold forth on. Wed, 23 May 2012 02:39:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nick http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-654 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:06:16 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-654 Jeez, mcclaren3, for a guy who advocates reading deeper into the subject matter, how did you miss that Sheldrake was -stabbed-, not -shot-?

]]> By: mcclaren3 http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-647 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:09:54 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-647 Your comments are beyond reductionist and disingenuous. To reduce Sheldrake’s work to an internet analogy is to show scant knowledge of what the man’s work is actually about.

Oh yeah…your oblique treatment of his being shot? Puerile at best, bestial, at worst.

]]> By: UFOMystic » Snarly UFO (and other) Skeptics http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-204 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:58:49 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-204 [...] to show you that this sort of attitude is not confined to Randi fans, here is a transparently vicious post on the Sheldrake news by another apparently fundamentalist type, who protests his inoocence when [...]

]]> By: Troy Britain http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-189 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:25:14 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-189 Why thank you Jacques, I love you to…

]]> By: jacques deBeaufort http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-187 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:18:06 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-187 Comment removed at the author’s request.

]]> By: T. Bruce McNeely http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-177 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:44:24 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-177 I would think that at most medical conferences, someone wandering around hearing voices in his head and seeing demons would be quickly recognized as suffering paranoid schizophrenia or chronic amphetamine abuse. Either way, he should have been given more assistance than being told that he should “calm down”.
I don’t think it’s classless to point out the irony that participants in a “science and consciousness” conference weren’t able to recognize someone who is psychotic (and the potentially tragic results of this).

]]> By: jessica http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-174 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:08:42 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-174 Francis is right. Your post completely crass and tasteless. This is something any rationalist should shy away from.

]]> By: Troy Britain http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-172 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:32:19 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-172 Lighten up Francis.

Sheldrake was, fortunately, not seriously injured, and I was not expressing amusement that he was stabbed, I was using the occasion of his being attacked to mock, ever so slightly, his ideas.

It is ironic that a person who believes, in and promotes, telepathy was attacked by a guy who hears voices in his head.

]]> By: Tony M http://pigeonchess.com/2008/04/04/purveyor-of-woo-rupert-sheldrake-stabbed/#comment-169 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:14:40 +0000 http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-169 I’m sorry, but are you expressing amusement that someone got stabbed? Astonishingly classless.

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