I believe Joshua DiCesare Fischer would appreciate this. Science is heavily institutionalized. Its a career structure. Scientists rule on very short leashes in relation to grants. Everything is peer reviewed, which at its best gives quality control, but at its worst is a very conservative force which needs people who are not prepared to do anything unusual or controversial. They want to do something safe and more or less predictable. So, science has lost a lot of its vigor and adventurousness as it has become a career structure. And to remain a part of that career structure, most scientists feel they need to pay at least lip service to the materialist philosophy. Many of them dont actually believe it, but they go along with it in public, because they know that is how to further their careers and not rock the boat. From the Sheldrake.org website we can briefly read about his credentials as a biologist and author saying he is best known for his hypothesis of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College. He was then Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. https://youtube/watch?v=Dn7zVlz1s7c
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