Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake fascinates me precisely because he is so divisive. Here is a genuinely credentialed Cambridge biochemist and Royal Society researcher who staked his reputation on morphic resonance, an idea mainstream science largely dismisses as pseudoscience. I do not need to endorse the theory to admire the nerve it takes to keep asking unfashionable questions under sustained ridicule. Science needs its dissenters at the edges, the people who refuse to accept that every question is settled. Whether or not he is right, Sheldrake embodies a kind of intellectual stubbornness I find oddly bracing, and far more interesting than safe conformity.

Name (English)

Rupert Sheldrake

Name (Japanese)

ルパート・シェルドレイク

Reading

るぱーと・しぇるどれいく

Born

June 28, 1942 (age 84)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Occupation

biologist / writer / parapsychologist / biochemist / philosopher

University

Clare College

• Official sitehttps://www.sheldrake.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%20Sheldrake
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349077

Tags

• biologist
• writer
• parapsychologist

Last updated

2026-06-20

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