# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rupert-sheldrake
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:53:52.877Z

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name: "Rupert Sheldrake"
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description: "Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is an English author and parapsychology researcher. He proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture that lacks mainstream acceptance and has been widely criticized as pseudoscience. He has worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist for ICRISAT in India."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump