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News Briefs 26-03-2013

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  1. TED’s Crowd Control

    […]Amazingly, with no discussion of the recent controversy.

    Actually, not that amazing, once you read the lengthy article. This article was written on a business magazine, and the author was clear in his intent of comparing TED –a non-profit organization– to for-profit companies like Apple & McAfee in their approach to harnessing the power of crowds to further their goals.

    But the main reason the author may have decided to avoid the recent controversy, it’s because the way TED handled it completely invalidates his thesis:

    Remember that TED’s initial response to the TEDxCharlotte fiasco was to call the presenter and ask him to defend his assertions. But as the December conflagration made clear, this private approach—which would have worked well for an internal employee—did little or nothing to get the crowd back on course before TEDxValenciaWomen. Instead, TED had to openly clarify to the TEDx crowd what TED isn’t in order to help sharpen what it is.

    So, with the guy who gave the talk about ‘Vortex-based Mathematics’ in 2010, the TED dudes requested him to provide peer-reviewed material that sustained his thesis –which he failed to do so. But now the roles have reversed, and Hancock & Sheldrake have demanded TED to provide evidence that what they discussed on their separate discussions could be labeled as pseudoscience –which TED has failed to do.

    Also, does anyone know if Emily McManus –the editor of TED.com who was mentioned in the article– has been involved in this recent controversy, the way she was when the ‘Vortex-based Mathematics’ talk was being the subject of criticism in 2012?

    1. McManus
      [quote=red pill junkie]Also, does anyone know if Emily McManus –the editor of TED.com who was mentioned in the article– has been involved in this recent controversy, the way she was when the ‘Vortex-based Mathematics’ talk was being the subject of criticism in 2012?[/quote]

      She’s the one who posted the original Sheldrake ‘‘conversation’ page, and thanked Myers and Coyne.

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