For those unsure of you Sheldrake is, he is an author and researcher. He wrote a text called “The Science Delusion” writing insight to a different way of viewing science. While I personally find the read interesting and opening, many science critics label is a :pseudo: science, yet I can agree.
Here is his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake#The_Science_Delusion_(Science_Set_Free).
While I am very intrigues by his ideas, even more so his apparent backlash in career. He was also in a TEDTalk that had happened to get banned: https://blog.ted.com/the-debate-about-rupert-sheldrakes-talk/. along with a statement of the banning from Sheldrake himself: https://blog.ted.com/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/
I’m curious as to hear the opinions of students regarding pseudo science and the slippery slope of subjectivity in sciences (and how it can relate to making a claim).