"TED is a cult." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNenJN4484 …
@bhsharp Then after the talk, some people in the audience with a clue probably clued them in and they were like "we gotta put a lid on it."
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@cmuratori Nah, both of them were TEDx talks, which are affiliate conferences. TED is clearly exercising more oversight after their talks...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori Though it doesn't look like they actually censored the talks - Sheldrake's wiki entry says the talk just got moved so TED couldThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori add cautionary verbiage, i.e. "This guy is a wackjob, we probably should have vetted this TEDx docket better."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori Ah yeah, here's a good article about it: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4171660/ted-withdraws-support-for-upcoming-tedx-event-not-solid-science … - there are "hundreds of TEDx events per month." -
@cmuratori And their actions are clearly a response to letting Sheldrake and Graham slip through the cracks, so they're trying!
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@cmuratori I also think Eddie Huang sounds like a narcissist asshole and his insistence on not hanging out during TED sounds uncool.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori If I were running a conference about getting lots of smart people together, I would object to someone who wanted to just -
@cmuratori do his talk and take off to hang out in LA away from the conference too. Sounds like he was kind of a dick. - Show replies
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