Psi Wars Ted Wikipedia And The Battle For The Internet

Author : Craig Weiler
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494389000
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psi Wars Ted, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet written by Craig Weiler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In journalistic fashion, Craig Weiler relates what began as a seemingly harmless attempt to make sure that TED talk videos maintained a high standard and how this exploded into a wild scientific controversy. When the nonprofit company took down one of their YouTube videos by scientist Rupert Sheldrake, who had given a speech on the philosophy of science, they ignited a fierce discussion that eventually grew to include hundreds of people spanning the globe. For a while, ordinary folks, distinguished scientists, Internet trolls and even a Nobel Prize winning physicist all got together to hash out the greatest scientific controversy . . . ever. What is reality? The controversy pitted an assortment of bloggers, scientists, futurists, philosophers and other intellectuals against TED and a small army of reactionaries, desperate to keep new scientific ideas out of the mainstream. This book explores the basis for the controversy and why so many intellectuals support major changes in scientific thinking. The book also explores the question: What's up with these science reactionaries? It also examines the people and the organizations who lobby the mainstream media, universities, and scientific organizations, and who work together to bend Wikipedia to their point of view. The controversy over the nature of reality has a profound effect on our society. Chances are that some of the science you read about in Wikipedia, and popular magazines and newspapers, has been altered to reflect the views of these skeptic reactionaries who have organized to "protect" you from "crazy" ideas.

Author : Craig Weiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786771179
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psi Wars written by Craig Weiler and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When TED, the global media platform, took down scientist Rupert Sheldrake's lecture, "The Science Delusion," deeming it not scientific, it ignited a fierce discussion around the globe. Bloggers, commenters, distinguished scientists, Internet trolls and even a Nobel Prize winning physicist all contributed to this once-in-a-lifetime debate. The subject? The most controversial question of all time--what is nature of reality? In Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet, Craig Weiler, in journalistic fashion, demonstrates how science, the accepted arbiter of truth, is constantly being manipulated and propagandized in an effort to uphold prejudices and beliefs in the scientific community. There is a division within the sciences about the nature of consciousness and the legitimacy of parapsychology as a science. Weiler examines how so-called guerilla skeptics and organizations lobby mainstream media, universities, colleges and scientific organizations, and use digital media such as Wikipedia to defend their point of view and discredit consciousness researchers and scientists. The controversy over the nature of reality has a profound effect on our society and helps determine our thoughts and actions and how we view the world. Brainwashing and propaganda, thought by many to be the tenets of religion and totalitarian regimes, is alive and well in the world of science and influencing our daily lives.

Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
ISBN 13 : 0965331059
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine - 112 July/August 2015 written by J. Douglas Kenyon and published by Atlantis Rising LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALTERNATIVE NEWS PROTOSCIENCE Free Energy...Gravity Control...Alternative Science... Fighting Back Against Catastrophic Drought By Jerry Decker THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST Ethiopian Jawbone, First Human? Not Really By Michael Cremo ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE The Artificial Intelligence Threat How Smart Can Our Machines Become? By STEPHEN ROBBINS, Ph.D. LOST HISTORY Atlantis & Ezkiel Was His 'Tyrus' the Fabled Lost City? By DAVID HERSHISER THE OTHER SIDE Cats that Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and More Investigating the Secrets of the Cat By FRANK JOSEPH CONTRARY OPINION Wikipedia and the Slant Factor How Much Should You Rely on the Free Online Encyclopedia? By MARTIN RUGGLES ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE Intelligent Design -- the Evidence Can the Neo-Darwinists Explain Our World, or Not? By WILLIAM B. STOECKER ANCIENT MYSTERIES What's in a Name? Archeolinguistics and the Lost History of Planet Earth By SUSAN MARTINEZ, Ph.D LOST HISTORY Easter Island Dogma Gets a Rewrite Startling New Evidence Is Creating Serious Problems for the Paradigm Protectors By ROBERT M. SCHOCH, PH.D. ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE The Coming of the Clones The Return of the Woolly Mammoth and Other Disturbing 'Scientific' Experiments By PATICK MARSOLEK LOST HISTORY Knights Templar and The Much-Traveled Head of JOHN THE BAPTIST Among Holy Relics, This One Stands Out By STEVEN SORA LOST HISTORY Return of the Gnostics How the Dark AgesCame to an End By GRAHAM HANCOCK & ROBERT BAUVAL ASTROLOGY Blue Moon What Effect Might These Uncommon Events Have? By Julie Loar DVD Travel to Mars on the Cheap Is There Another Way to Get Our Questions About the Red Planet Answered? By Marsha Oaks

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9188061248
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vaccination Panic in Australia written by Brian Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009 in Australia, a citizens' campaign was launched to silence public criticism of vaccination. This campaign involved an extraordinary variety of techniques to denigrate, harass and censor public vaccine critics. It was unlike anything seen in other scientific controversies, involving everything from alleging beliefs in conspiracy theories to rewriting Wikipedia entries. Vaccination Panic in Australia analyses this campaign from the point of view of free speech. Brian Martin describes the techniques used in the attack, assesses different ways of defending and offers wider perspectives for understanding the struggle. The book will be of interest to readers interested in the vaccination debate and in struggles over free speech and citizen participation in decision-making.

Author : Morgan Knudsen
Publisher : Beyond the Fray Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781954528246
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Living written by Morgan Knudsen and published by Beyond the Fray Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 20 years, Award Winning parapsychology researcher Morgan Knudsen ("Haunted Hospitals", "Paranormal 911", "Supernatural Circumstances") has brought her unique and paradigm shifting program "Teaching The Living" to television, conferences, comic expos, theatres, workshops, and now to readers everywhere. Using the latest information in parapsychological research, mind blowing cases, real evidence, and deep personal experiences with the paranormal, Morgan elevates the conversation on the supernormal to a new level. In "Teaching The Living: From Heartbreak to Happiness in a Haunted Home", Morgan aims to leave readers with the fundamental message that we are not alone, that we are all spiritual beings living a physical life, and that we have the ultimate power to create our reality by changing our paradigms. Utilizing the fire arts, cutting edge research, real science, and a deep dive into the untold annals of history, "Teaching the Living" will leave you on new ground, with a new perspective, and with the undeniable knowledge of how to change your life experience with the unknown for the better.

Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742558038
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom in the World 2006 written by Freedom House and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.

Author : Aashild Sørheim
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303026338X
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obsessed by a Dream written by Aashild Sørheim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron. He later went on to build the first radiation therapy machine, an advance that would eventually revolutionize cancer treatment. Hospitals worldwide installed his machine, and today's modern radiation treatment equipment is based on his inventions. Widerøe's story also includes a fair share of drama, particularly during World War II when both Germans and the Allies vied for his collaboration. Widerøe held leading positions in multinational industry groups and was one of the consultants for building the world's largest nuclear laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. He gained over 200 patents, received several honorary doctorates and a number of international awards. The author, a professional writer and maker of TV documentaries, has gained access to hitherto restricted archives in several countries, which provided a wealth of new material and insights, in particular in relation to the war years. She tells here a gripping and illuminating story.

Author : Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9781529393224
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science Delusion written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freeing the Spirit of EnquiryThe Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316535621
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Author : The Onion
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031613323X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Onion Book of Known Knowledge written by The Onion and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.