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• UFOs & Bogus Science
David Papineau reviews The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
.If you ask me, the trouble with Sheldrake isn't his experimental results, but his theories. They don't fit with the way we know the world works. Ever since the Renaissance, science has been premised on the assumption that the basic furniture of nature consists of a few simple particles and forces.