Thursday, April 4, 2013

Ideas worth spreading - You're doing it wrong!

TED is revoking the license of TEDxWestHollywood, just a couple of weeks before their event, "Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?" without offering a reason, beyond a vague statement suggesting that the program is not sufficiently scientific. This occurred just two weeks before the April 14 event, after over a year of preparation. If you're feeling a sense of déjà vu, that's because they used this same line of reasoning to pull videos by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake just a few weeks ago, an incident that sparked wide controversy
Read more here at "TED rejects new Paradigm" - Reality Sandwich.

The irony...

3 comments:

John Anderson said...

Taking down a talk by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake but leaving a video up of Nathan Barnet talking about his dance, comedy and working w/ the band Yelle seems.....WRONG. Some priorities are seriously lacking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1QfDRKifRY&list=PLQgsNLuSfHjXXXra28X-Hs8Cr3GwEST5R&index=1

Dedroidify said...

Nice illustration of that! Damn.

Anonymous said...

The internet is larger than you, TED.

It's now: ExTEDxWestHollywood
http://www.tedxwesthollywood.com/

:-/