Eric von Daniken on Night Waves

[Bryn]

Well Rupert Sheldrake actually, but hopefully you get the point. Radio 3 used to have serious science programmes a couple or so decades ago. Now we get sort of stuff. How come Sheldrake is turning up on the Beeb of late. Oh, another pseudo-science best-seller to push, I guess.

[amateur51]

Yay morphic resonance, why so many of Lloyds-Banks' tunes sound like someone else's?!

This programme however, was a cracker ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019h7t0/Horizon_The_Hunt_for_Higgs_A_Horizon_Special/

[Bryn]

Yay morphic resonance, why so many of Lloyds-Banks' tunes sound like someone else's?!

This programme however, was a cracker ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...rizon_Special/

Agreed, though I would love to know how those not already familiar with at least the basics would respond to it. I thought it popular science broadcasting at it best.

[Frances_iom]

I'd assumed that Sheldrake's 'science' resonated with the arts educated science-phobic who run R4 + R3 (he also appeared on 'question of belief') - sounds to me as tho' gone somewhat loopy in early old age thus ideal for broadcasting as bound to produce more heat than light.

[Russ]

I liked the Sheldrake programme. Although I didn't agree with his wilder shores like morphic resonance, his central charge against scientific orthodoxy was well argued. The programme was not treated as a 'science one' because it was about Belief.

Russ