Founded in 1973, the Scientific and Medical Network is a leading international forum for people engaged in creating a new worldview for the 21st Century.
It links like-minded individuals from more than fifty countries.
The Network brings together scientists, doctors, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, complementary practitioners and other professionals.
Network Aims
To challenge the adequacy of scientific materialism as an exclusive basis for knowledge and values.
To provide a safe forum for the critical and open minded discussion of ideas that go beyond the reductionist paradigm.
To integrate intuitive insights with rational analysis.
To encourage a respect for Earth and Community which emphasises a spiritual and holistic approach.
Video: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia on TEDTalks
Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)