Suzanne Taylor Talks TED Contoversy on Coast to Coast with George Knapp

TED Talks Controversy

In the latter half of the first hour, researcher and filmmaker Suzanne Taylor revealed controversies with the TED Talks program. She was hired to produce TEDx events in West Hollywood, based on her proposal to present expansive ideas, with such luminaries as physicist Russell Targ, an expert on psi abilities, and Dr. Larry Dossey, known for his work on the healing power of prayer. But a cadre of people within the TED organization decided her program was too fringe, even though she was planning on presenting highly credentialed people, and she was dropped. Earlier, TED had pulled a presentation by Rupert Sheldrake from their site. A protest and petition regarding TED's activities in this regard can be found at setsciencefree.org.

Knapp's News 3/23/14

George Knapp shares a number of items that have recently caught his attention including an article about how one or more fragments of a rare meteorite possibly landed near St. Thomas, Ontario:

Meteorite from Ontario fireball described as 'Rosetta stone'
Kidnapping the News
The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics
Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America
How billionaires became the benefactors of science
Epic Gravitational-Wave Discovery Points to Existence of Multiple Universes

Caricature of George Knapp by Dennis Rano, ufologistoons.com
Click to enlarge.