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==References== {{reflist|30em|refs= <!-- self --> <ref name=presencepast>{{cite book |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert |year=2011 |title=The presence of the past: Morphic resonance and the habits of nature |publisher=Icon Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyeKFT9hPTUC&pg=PT13 |isbn=9781848313132}}</ref> <ref name=seven-exp>{{cite book |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert |title=Seven experiments that could change the world: a do-it-yourself guide to revolutionary science |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781573225649 |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Riverhead Books |year=1995|isbn=9781573225649 }}</ref> <ref name=dogs>{{cite book |title=Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home: and other unexplained powers of animals |location=New York |publisher=Crown |year=1999 |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert}}</ref> <ref name=stared>{{cite book |title=The Sense of Being Stared At: and other aspects of the extended mind |url=https://archive.org/details/senseofbeingstar00shel |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Crown Publishers |year=2003 |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert|isbn=9780609608074 }}</ref> <ref name=ssf>{{cite book |title=Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery |publisher=Deepak Chopra Books |location=New York |year=2012 |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q13qPII2VDUC|isbn=9780770436711 }}</ref> <ref name=bio1>{{cite web|url=http://www.sheldrake.org/About/biography/|title=Biography of Rupert Sheldrake, PhD|publisher=sheldrake.org|access-date=18 March 2013 |last=Sheldrake|first=Rupert|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204222558/http://www.sheldrake.org/About/biography/ |archive-date=4 December 2013}}</ref> <ref name=bio2>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheldrake.org/about-rupert-sheldrake/autobiography |title=Autobiography of Rupert Sheldrake|publisher=Sheldrake.org |access-date=28 May 2008 |last=Sheldrake|first=Rupert}}</ref> <ref name=bio-anglican>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Doijy63RIgAC&pg=PA119 |editor=Chartres, Caroline |title=Why I Am Still an Anglican: Essays and Conversations |publisher=Continuum |date=June 2006 |isbn=9780826481436}}</ref> <ref name=chaos>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EViCc75ndV4C&pg=PA182 |last1=Sheldrake|first1=Rupert|last2=McKenna|first2=Terence K. |last3=Abraham|first3=Ralph |title=Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness |publisher=Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |year=2011 |pages=181–182 |isbn=9781594777714}}</ref> <ref name=rebirth>{{cite book |last=Sheldrake |first=Rupert |title=The Rebirth of Nature: The greening of science and God |location=New York |publisher=Bantam Books |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-553-07105-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/rebirthofnatureg00shel }}</ref> <!-- news --> <ref name=SFNM>{{cite news|url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Trial-planned-for-alleged-assailant |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20120130051112/http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Trial-planned-for-alleged-assailant |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 January 2012 |title=Alleged assailant says he's not crazy |last=Sharpe|first=Tom |work=The Santa Fe New Mexican |date=20 September 2008 |access-date=25 March 2012}}</ref> <ref name=Leviton>Leviton, Mark, [http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/446/wrong_turn ''Wrong Turn''], [[The Sun (magazine)|The Sun]], February 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.</ref> <!-- new age --> <ref name=hanegraaff>{{cite book |last=Hanegraaff |first=Wouter Jacobus |title=New Age religion and Western culture: esotericism in the mirror of secular thought |publisher=Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Godgeleerdheid |year=1995 |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnrT97nXzgQC&pg=PA352 |isbn=9780791438541}}</ref> <ref name=frazier>{{cite book |editor-last=Frazier|editor-first=K.|title=The Hundredth Monkey and other Paradigms of the Paranormal |publisher=Prometheus |location=Buffalo |year=1991 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ1v3bggyr8C&pg=PA171 |isbn=9781615924011}}</ref> <ref name=gunther>{{cite book |title=The Vital Dimension: A Quest for Mind, Memory and God in the Thickness of Time |year=2006 |last=Gunther |first=Carl T. |publisher=iUniverse |location=Lincoln, NE |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecKk3JMVVNQC&pg=PA60 |isbn=9780595402977}}</ref> <ref name="Guardian holistic">{{cite news |title=A holistic sense of place in the quagmire of history |work=The Guardian |date=19 August 1987 |page=11}}</ref> <!-- media --> <ref name=heretics>{{cite episode |series=Heretics of Science |title=Rupert Sheldrake |network=BBC |date=19 July 1994}}</ref> <!--unused<ref name=Bekoff>{{cite journal |last=Bekoff|first=Marc |date=14 November 2013 |title=Why Dogs Hump and Rupert Sheldrake's Morphogenic Fields |journal=Psychology Today |url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201311/why-dogs-hump-and-rupert-sheldrakes-morphogenic-fields}}</ref>--> <ref name=whitfield>{{cite journal |last=Whitfield|first=J.|date=22 January 2004 |title=Telepathic charm seduces audience at paranormal debate |journal=Nature |volume=427 |page=277 |bibcode=2004Natur.427..277W |issue=6972 |doi=10.1038/427277b |pmid=14737136|doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=overhyped>{{cite journal |journal=Nature |date=14 September 2006 |volume=443 |page=132 |title=Overhyped |doi=10.1038/443132a |issue=7108 |bibcode=2006Natur.443..132. |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=new-scientist-wolpert>{{cite journal |journal=New Scientist |title=When science meets the paranormal |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18124380.200-when-science-meets-the-paranormal.html |date=13 March 2004 |volume=2438}}</ref> <ref name=tedblog>{{cite web |url=http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/19/the-debate-about-rupert-sheldrakes-talk/ |title=The debate about Rupert Sheldrake's talk |publisher=TED |date=19 March 2013}}</ref> <ref name=TimAdams>{{cite news |last=Adams|first=Tim |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/05/rupert-sheldrake-interview-science-delusion |title=Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma |work=The Guardian |date=4 February 2012 |access-date=2 November 2013}}</ref> <!-- criticism --> <ref name="Maddox 1981">{{Cite journal|journal=Nature|volume=293|pages=245–246|date=24 September 1981|title=A book for burning?|doi=10.1038/293245b0|issue=5830|bibcode=1981Natur.293R.245. |quote=...Sheldrake's argument is in no sense a scientific argument but is an exercise in pseudo-science. |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/293245b0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823004046/http://www.project-reason.org/images/uploads/contest/Maddox1981.pdf|last=Maddox|first=John|s2cid=4330931|archive-date=23 August 2014|url-access=subscription}}</ref> <ref name=Rutherford>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/feb/05/evolution|last=Rutherford|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Rutherford|title=A book for ignoring: Sheldrake persists in his claims, despite the fact that there's no evidence for them. This is bad science |work=The Guardian |date=6 February 2009 |access-date=13 July 2013}}</ref> <!-- <ref name=vinge>{{cite journal |last=Vinge|first=J. D.|year=2000 |title=Murphy's cat |journal=Nature |volume=408 |pages=649 |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v408/n6813/full/408649a0.html |quote=Rupert Sheldrake? Oh ''please''. Leave 'morphic resonance' in the dustbin where it belongs. No experiment ever found his 'mystery force field'.|bibcode = 2000Natur.408..649V |doi=10.1038/35047185 |issue=6813 }}</ref>--> <ref name="Rose 1988">{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Rose|work=The Guardian|date=13 April 1988|page=27|title=Some facts that just don't resonate}}</ref> <ref name=rose>{{cite journal |journal=Rivista di Biologia |last=Rose |first=S. |date=March 1992 |title=So-called "Formative Causation." A Hypothesis Disconfirmed. Response to Rupert Sheldrake |volume=85 |issue=3/4|pages=445–453 |pmid=1341837 |url=http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/morphic/Rose_response.html |quote=Along with parapsychology, corn circles, creationism, ley-lines and "deep ecology," "formative causation," or "morphic resonance" has many of the characteristics of such pseudosciences... |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807105012/http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles%26Papers/papers/morphic/Rose_response.html |archive-date=7 August 2014 }}</ref> <ref name="Rose 1994">{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Rose|work=The Guardian|date=8 September 1994|title=Heresy at stake|page=B11}}</ref> <ref name=maddox2>{{cite journal |last=Maddox |first=J. |year=1999 |title=Dogs, telepathy and quantum mechanics |journal=Nature |volume=401 |pages=849–850 |bibcode=1999Natur.401..849M |doi=10.1038/44696 |issue=6756 |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=gardner>{{cite book|last=Gardner|first=M. |year=1988 |title=The New Age: notes of a fringe-watcher |publisher=Prometheus books |quote=Almost all scientists who have looked into Sheldrake's theory consider it balderdash. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ECKIASfKa8C&pg=PA112 |isbn=9781615925773}}</ref> <ref name=alcock>{{cite book |year=2003 |title=Psi wars: Getting to grips with the paranormal |publisher=Imprint Academic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyfbUvuJbbYC&pg=PA231 |quote=Rupert Sheldrake's (1994) popular book ''Seven Experiments That Could Change the World'' is more of a collection of seven deadly sins of science and, from a philosophy of science standpoint, a documentation of the reasons why parapsychology is regarded as pseudoscience. |editor-last1=Alcock|editor-first1=J. E.|editor-last2=Burns|editor-first2=J. E.|editor-last3=Freeman|editor-first3=A.|isbn=9780907845485}}</ref> <ref name=wiseman1>{{cite journal |last1=Wiseman|first1=R. |last2=Smith|first2=M.|last3=Milton|first3=J.|year=1998 |title=Can animals detect when their owners are returning home? An experimental test of the 'psychic pet' phenomenon |journal=British Journal of Psychology |volume=89 |pages=453–462 |url=http://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/2285/902380.pdf?sequence=1 |format=PDF |doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1998.tb02696.x |issue=3|pmid=9734300 |hdl=2299/2285 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=wiseman2>{{cite journal |last1=Wiseman|first1=Richard|last2=Smith|first2=Matthew|last3=Milton|first3=Julie|title=The 'psychic pet' phenomenon: a reply to Rupert Sheldrake |journal=Journal of the Society for Psychical Research |year=2000 |url=http://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/2282/902377.pdf?sequence=1 |format=PDF}}</ref> <ref name=sciam>{{cite journal|last=Shermer|first=Michael|title=Rupert's Resonance|journal=Scientific American|volume=293|issue=5|pages=38|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican1105-38|pmid = 16318024|year=2005|bibcode=2005SciAm.293e..38S}}</ref> <ref name=baker>{{cite journal |last=Baker|first=R. A.|year=2000 |title=Can We Tell When Someone is Staring at Us? |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=24 | issue = 2 |pages=34–40 |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/can_we_tell_when_someone_is_staring_at_us/}}</ref> <ref name="Discover2000">{{Cite journal |last=Lemley|first=B.|year=2000 |title=Heresy |journal=Discover |volume=21 | issue = 8 |pages=60–65 |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/heresy}}</ref> <ref name=impostures>{{cite book |last=de Pracontal|first=M.|year=1986 |title=L'imposture scientifique en dix leçons |publisher=Editions La Découverte}}</ref> <ref name=skepdic>{{cite web|url=http://skepdic.com/morphicres.html |title=Morphic Resonance |publisher=Skepdic.com |last=Carroll|first=Robert Todd |access-date=27 August 2012}}</ref> <ref name=samuel>{{cite book |last=Samuel|first=L. R. |year=2011 |title=Supernatural America: A Cultural History |publisher=ABC-CLIO |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tg4RNh0XREgC&pg=PA163 |quote=...most biologists considered Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance hogwash... |isbn=9780313398995}}</ref> <ref name="Blackmore 1999">{{cite journal |last=Blackmore|first=S.|title=If the truth is out there, we've not found it yet |journal=The Times Higher Education Supplement |date=27 August 1999 |volume= 18 |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/147748.article}}</ref> <ref name="Blackmore 2009">{{cite news |last=Blackmore|first=Susan|author-link=Susan Blackmore|title=An idea with resonance: More than anything, Sheldrake's continuing popularity is rooted in our need to believe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/04/morphic-paranormal-science-sheldrake|date=4 February 2009|work=The Guardian}}</ref> <ref name=sharma>{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Ruchir|author-link=Ruchir Sharma|title=Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2012 |quote=Despite Sheldrake's legitimate scientific credentials, his peers have roundly dismissed his theory as pseudoscience. |isbn=9780393083835|title-link=Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles}}</ref> <ref name="Wolpert 1984">{{Cite news|title=A matter of fact or fancy?|last=Wolpert|first=Lewis|author-link=Lewis Wolpert|work=The Guardian|date=11 January 1984|page=11}}</ref> <ref name=MarksColwell>{{cite journal |last1=Marks|first1=D.|last2=Colwell|first2=J.|date=September–October 2000 |title=The psychic staring effect: An artifact of pseudo-randomization |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=24 |issue=5 |page=49 |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/psychic_staring_effect_an_artifact_of_pseudo_randomization/}}</ref> <ref name=hood>{{cite book|last=Hood|first=Bruce|author-link=Bruce Hood (psychologist)|title=Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable |publisher=HarperOne |year=2009 |page=[https://archive.org/details/supersensewhyweb00hood/page/232 232] |url=https://archive.org/details/supersensewhyweb00hood |url-access=registration|quote=Sheldrake proposes that the sense of being stared at and other aspects of paranormal ability, such as telepathy and knowing about events in the future before they happen, are all evidence for a new field theory that he calls 'morphic resonance.' ... The trouble is that, whereas electric and magnetic fields are easily measurable and obey laws, morphic resonance remains elusive and has no demonstrable laws. No other area of science would accept such lawless, weak evidence as proof, which is why the majority of the scientific community has generally dismissed this theory and the evidence. |isbn=9780061867934}}</ref> <ref name="Jones">{{cite news|last=Jones|first=David|work=[[The Times]]|date=4 July 1988|title=Books: Captain Morphic – Review of 'The Presence of the Past' By Rupert Sheldrake}}</ref> <ref name="Leader">{{cite news|last=Leader|first=David P.|work=The Guardian|date=20 April 1988|title=Letter to the editor}}</ref> <ref name="Parkin">{{cite news|last=Parkin|first=Alan J.|title=When a little learning is a dangerous thing|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 1985|page=12}}</ref> <!--unused <ref>{{Cite book| last = Palmer | first = Trevor | title = Perilous Planet Earth | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | location = Cambridge | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-521-81928-8 |pages = 173–174}}</ref> unused--> <!-- support --> <ref name="Edwards">{{cite news|last=Edwards|first=Mark|title=Knowing what to think; Science|work=[[The Sunday Times]]|date=15 May 1994|page=11}}</ref> <ref name="Midgley 2012">{{cite news|last=Midgley|first=Mary| title=The Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/27/science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake-review| date=27 January 2012 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> <!--<ref name="Vernon 2012">{{cite news|last=Vernon|first=Mark| title= It's time for science to move on from materialism|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/28/science-move-away-materialism-sheldrake| date=28 January 2012 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>--> <!--<ref name="Tudge">{{cite news|last=Tudge|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Tudge|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-science-delusion-freeing-the-spirit-of-enquiry-by-rupert-sheldrake-6285286.html|title=The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry, By Rupert Sheldrake|date=6 January 2012|work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>--> <ref name="Appleyard">{{cite news|last=Appleyard|first=Bryan|author-link=Bryan Appleyard|title=Dogmas under the microscope; The rogue scientist who dares to challenge the idea that science alone explains everything in the world|work=[[The Sunday Times]]|date=19 February 2012|page=38}}</ref> <ref name="Roszak">{{cite journal|journal=New Scientist|url=https://www.newscientist.com/data/doc/teaser/blog/201106/nsreview.pdf|date=21 July 1988|title=Habits of nature|last=Roszak|first=Theodore|author-link=Theodore Roszak (scholar)|page=63}}</ref> <ref name=chopra-review>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/Science-Set-Free-Good-News-for-Lumbering-Robots-3834730.php |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2 November 2012 |last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-link=Deepak Chopra|title=Science Set Free – Good News for Lumbering Robots}}</ref> <!-- British Association controversy --> <!--unused <ref name="Connor Independent 2006">{{cite news|last=Connor|first=Steve|author-link=Steve Connor (journalist)|title=Scientists angry after platform is given to 'charlatan's fantasy'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/scientists-angry-after-platform-is-given-to-charlatans-fantasy-414803.html|date=6 September 2006|work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> unused--> <ref name="Hawkes">{{cite news|title=Tricks of the tongue; Books|work=[[The Times]]|date=9 April 1994|page=14|last=Hawkes|first=Nigel}}</ref> <!-- misc --> }} <!--end reflist -->
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