Editing Rupert Sheldrake (section)

=== On television ===
Sheldrake was the subject of an episode of ''Heretics of Science'', a six-part documentary series broadcast on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.episodecalendar.com/show/heretics-of-science |title=Heretics of Science |publisher=episodecalendar.com}}</ref> In this episode, John Maddox discussed "A book for burning?," his 1981 ''Nature'' editorial review of Sheldrake's book, ''A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance''. Maddox said that morphic resonance "is not a scientific theory. Sheldrake is putting forward magic instead of science, and that can be condemned with exactly the language that the popes used to condemn Galileo, and for the same reasons: it is heresy."<ref name=heretics/> The broadcast repeatedly displayed footage of book burning, sometimes accompanied by audio of a crowd chanting "heretic."<ref name=heretics/> Biologist [[Steven Rose]] criticised the broadcast for focusing on Maddox's rhetoric as if it was "all that mattered." "There wasn't much sense of the scientific or metascientific issues at stake," Rose said.<ref name="Rose 1994"/>

An experiment involving measuring the time for subjects to recognise hidden images, with morphic resonance being posited to aid in recognition, was conducted in 1984 by the [[BBC]] popular science programme ''[[Tomorrow's World]]''. In the outcome of the experiment, one set of data yielded positive results and another set yielded negative results.<ref name=heretics/>