[Hidden-tech] TEDx --- has standards

[Sabine Merz]

I very much concur with you Glenn. And I think the climate change "discussions" are a very good example. It's a disservice to scientific 
exploration to present everything on an equal footing. Is it a wonder so many Americans believe in creationism? 

(A recent poll showed that forty six percent Americans believed in creationism 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html )

best,
sabine

On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Glenn Johnson wrote:

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