Uninvitation

Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:37 pm » by **Sheeple**

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/articles/uninvite.html wrote:Dear Prof. Josephson,

I am very sorry to have to inform you that, at my initiative, Mike
Towler and I are withdrawing our invitation for you to attend our
workshop at The Towler Institute this summer.

It has come to my attention that one of your principal research
interests is the paranormal. I have told Dr Towler that, in my view,
it would not be appropriate for someone with such research interests
to attend a scientific conference. On this basis, I have urged him to
agree to withdrawing the invitation, much to his personal regret.

Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:47 pm » by **Scoundrel1975**

FFS...

Scientists need to get more involved

Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:55 pm » by **Lilith**

just like what I have posted today:

lilith wrote:[...]today at my university my prof told us about a student who was about to get a prize for an animation he made, but just before the award show took place, they found out that he was a "conspiracy nut"...so he didn't get the prize..they didn't want to have anything to do with such dangerous, crazy ideas...

and my prof wasn't on his side either

I mean ..WTF?!!

aaaarrgh

Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:58 pm » by **Scoundrel1975**

lts a piss take, the sooner we have disclosure the better

Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:01 pm » by **Theduck**

On a side note wtf is this? http://www.psyche.com/psyche/cube/cube.html

Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:24 pm » by **Sheeple**

Matthew Reisz, 29 April 2010, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=411401&c=2 wrote:He didn't see that coming, or did he?
Nobel laureate's interest in paranormal leads to conference rejection, writes Matthew Reisz

An extraordinary spat has broken out after a Nobel prizewinning physicist was "uninvited" from a forthcoming conference because of his interest in the paranormal.

Details of the conference in August for experts in quantum mechanics sounded idyllic. Participants were due to discuss "de Broglie-Bohm theory and beyond" in the Towler Institute, which is housed in a 16th-century monastery in the Tuscan Alps owned by Mike Towler, Royal Society research fellow at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory.

Last week, any veneer of serenity was shattered. Conference organiser Antony Valentini, research associate in the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London, wrote to three participants to say their invitations had been withdrawn.

The physicist and science writer David Peat, biographer of David Bohm (co-founder of de Broglie-Bohm theory), was considered tainted because of his books on "Jungian synchronicity" and "connections between Native American thought and modern physics".

Brian Josephson, head of the Mind-Matter Unification Project at Cambridge, was rejected on the grounds that "one of his principal research interests is the paranormal".

Professor Josephson, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on superconductivity, has long been one of the discipline's more colourful figures.

In 2001, he attracted derision from some of his peers when he discussed telepathy in his contribution to a booklet issued to celebrate the centenary of the Nobel prizes.

Recent developments in quantum theory, theories of information and computation "may lead to an explanation of processes still not understood within conventional science such as telepathy, an area where Britain is at the forefront of research", he wrote.

Speaking this week, Professor Josephson said: "I was keen to attend the conference and would have concentrated on the theoretical ideas and touched on the paranormal as only one aspect. I thought it would be an interesting opportunity for cross-fertilisation."

News of the exclusions led to what Dr Towler described as a "great email storm".

Even spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller joined in, and on 24 April Dr Towler "renewed the invitation" to Dr Peat and Professor Josephson but not to the third rejected participant, American theoretical physicist Jack Sarfatti. Dr Towler claimed Dr Sarfatti had "written something like 100 emails" since his invitation was withdrawn, "many ... suggesting that we are in the pay of the CIA".

Dr Peat agreed to participate while Professor Josephson was considering his position.

matthew.reisz@tsleducation.com.

Editor's note: Jack Sarfatti has contacted Times Higher Education to clarify the content of his emails to Mike Towler. He said that references to the possible involvement of “intelligence agencies” were not references to the CIA. THE is happy to clarify that Dr Sarfatti does not believe that Dr Towler was in the pay of the CIA.

Sat May 15, 2010 7:41 am » by **Rage4truth**

such is common practice. Most scientist do not realize that the very thing they practice at one time was considered something paranormal.
That sad part about a scientist and his or her views is that when you bring forth evidence or something paranormal, they will literally make up stuff to debunk it.
Somethings just don't have a logical scientific answer especially when it come to the human being.

Sat May 15, 2010 7:54 am » by **Mediasorcerer**

its the challenge to there egos they dont like,these scientists are taught to believe they are superior to average humans,they are built up in the uni environment to feel superior,and when they get confronted by a subject that they have little knowledge,denial is the weapon/ridicule too,cos they are frightened of the iudea they are not supreme intelligence,weak cunts.