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(NaturalNews) Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012.
A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes." The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.
The TED organization, incredibly, believes that food cannot be medicine and does not contain medicine. Perhaps someone should educate TED about resveratrol, curcumin, phycocyanins, polyphenols and ten thousand other chemicals created by plants that have medicinal functions in the human body. To deny this is to nearly admit you believe the Earth is flat and that the sun and stars revolve around our planet. It is a sure sign of a feeble mind that cannot grasp the very simple and readily evident idea that the human body evolved in an environment full of plants with beneficial physiological effects, including many medicinal effects.
Maybe someone should remind TED that nearly 25% of all prescription medicines are in some way derived from plants, including statin drugs. Drug companies expend enormous resources searching the world's botanical treasures for amazing molecules that they can pirate from nature and alter in some way to make them patentable as a drug. Even the World Resources Institute readily admits this, while also reminding us that 80 percent of the world population still relies largely on plant-based medicine.
TED apparently thinks 80 percent of the world population is purely delusional, because obviously, as TED insists, real medicine can only come from pharmacological factories spewing out deadly chemicals, right?
The_Oracle
halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing
(NaturalNews)
and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine,
now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
These are not “banned” topics by any means — but they are topics that tend to attract pseudo-scientists.
If your speaker proposes a topic like this, use extra scrutiny.
2. Red flag topics
These are not “banned” topics by any means — but they are topics that tend to attract pseudo-scientists. If your speaker proposes a topic like this, use extra scrutiny. An expanding, depressing list follows:
Food science, including:
GMO food and anti-GMO foodists
Food as medicine, especially to treat a specific condition: Autism and ADHD, especially causes of and cures for autism
Because of the sad history of hoaxes with deadly consequences in the field of autism research, really look into the background of any autism-related talk. If you hear anything that sounds remotely like, “Vaccines are related to autism,” — RUN AWAY. Another non-legitimate argument: “We don’t know what works, so we have to try everything.” Pretty much all the time, this argument is designed to cause guilt in suffering parents so they’ll spend money on unproven treatments.
More:
"Healing," including reiki, energy fields, alternative health and placebos, crystals, pyramid power
"Free energy" and perpetual motion machines, alchemy, time travel
The neuroscience of [fill in the blank] — not saying this will all be non-legitimate, but that it’s a field where a lot of goofballs are right now
The fusion of science and spirituality. Be especially careful of anyone trying to prove the validity of their religious beliefs and practices by using science
Look carefully at talks on these topics: ask to see published data, and find a second source, unrelated to the speaker and a recognized expert in the field, who can validate the research.
alfa1
The_Oracle
halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing
(NaturalNews)
and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine,
now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
And once again, NaturalNews lies to its readers.
If you take the time to actually read the letter, no such "halt"ing, "reject"ing or banning is stated.
The wording is merely to aid organisers in looking for pseudoscience and offers a suggestion:
These are not “banned” topics by any means — but they are topics that tend to attract pseudo-scientists.
If your speaker proposes a topic like this, use extra scrutiny.
edit on 19-9-2013 by alfa1 because: (no reason given)
www.merriam-webster.com...
se·ques·tra·tion
noun \ˌsē-kwəs-ˈtrā-shən, ˌse-; (ˌ)sē-ˌkwes-\
: the act of keeping a person or group apart from other people or the state of being kept apart from other people
“…it framed the issue in a way that was explicitly partisan. And it included a number of arguments that were unconvincing, even to those of us who supported his overall stance. The audience at TED who heard it live (and who are often accused of being overly enthusiastic about left-leaning ideas) gave it, on average, mediocre ratings."
charles1952
It's seems that TED's reputation has survived unstained.
kosmicjack
When TED banned this talk by Nick Hanauer on income inequality - they proved that they serve the interests of the corporate and political establishment and not " Ideas Worth Spreading"
www.highexistence.com...
The War on Consciousness
The third censored talk is by Graham Hancock and called ‘The War on Consciousness‘.
“If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.”
– Graham Hancock
and editorialized in Forbes, a corporate apologist rag if ever there was one.
I hope you can see why I'm confused. Is their obligation to present fringe ideas greater than ATS' for some reason?
. . . if TED is about "Ideas Worth Spreading" how do they decide worth and who makes the decision?
500 years ago someone had the crazy idea that the world was round. Galileo had some ideas that scared the hell out of the establishment.
The fact is, information is power and this attempt to gate-keep fringe or esoteric topics smacks more of control than merely editorial.
Ideas should not be banned. Let people decide for themselves.
A reason was given by the Curator. I don't have any reason to believe the Curator is lying. Do you?
So, why pull it?
Sure, anything's possible. Do you know of any letters from sponsors, or corporate E-mails that might support that position?
Is it that the corporate sponsors gave it a thumbs down? TED is a huge platform for show casing ideas, maybe they thought that one was too dangerous to their interests.
Grimpachi
And this is why anything from natural news should be taken with a grain of salt. They have a reputation for not telling the truth.