You know Embla, I just looked him up and was reading his wikipedia bio and came across this and I instantly liked this guy.
"Sheldrake also argues that science has become a series of dogmas rather than an open-minded approach to investigating phenomena"
I can not tell you how much I agree with him. I got into a series of quite intense arguments with Clydey on Murray's World, who's a hard materialist btw and subscribes to Newtonian law only, and this was one of the debates. He tries very hard to debunk everything though he very rarely provides any real data. I believe all the mainstream scientists are now grasping at straws ever since Quantum Physics and Mechanics came into the picture in 1925 and took the science world to storm. Even Einstein didn't like it but eventually he had to go along with it. He had no choice because of the dead accuracy of QP and QM.