[Hidden-tech] TEDx Censorship Expands

[Glenn Johnson]

I think one of the problems we've had in mainstream media is presenting
incorrect and unscientific perspectives on an equal footing with
research-based scientifically validated ones. For example the media
providing a "balance of opinions" on climate change when the scientific
community is nearly unanimous in their belief in human-caused climate
change. I'm glad TED expects its franchisees to have scientific standards
when they are curating conferences, and the people who lost their funding
and their ability to use the TED brand should have known better. (Its in
their contract.) It does look like TED needs to get better at handling
these kinds of debates. But I applaud TED for having high editorial
expectations and I do not think that is the same thing as censorship.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Marcia Yudkin <yudkinyudkin at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> In the light of the disturbing controversy over one of the talks in last
> fall's TEDx event in Shelburne Falls, at which I saw numerous other Hidden
> Techers, consider this even larger instance of the TED organization's
> official disapproval of ideas that are not accepted by mainstream science,
> ideas that many people in our community find exciting and worth taking
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> http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/ted-not-satisfied-with-current-censorship-tedxwesthollywood-is-taken-down/
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> Marcia Yudkin
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