It then has links to a few of her articles, but the ones I sampled were on topics in training and personal development, sprinkled with neuroscience. No QM.
The related skill is communicating science to a broad public in a way the public understands. That's what she did at Spektrum and what she does in that video. The room in which she's holding that lecture is a proper university hall at the Technische Universität München.
The lecture doesn't say something that would damage her reputation among academics.
Your stereotypical patterns don't work well in her case.
Your stereotypical patterns don't work well in her case.
I'm not accusing Birkenbihl of peddling woo. The original comment posted by Roho does come from a book of woo, and Roho associated her name with the idea.
As I say, I'm not going to search two hours of video in a language I hardly know to find out what Birkenbihl said on the subject; so I do not know if Roho's attribution to Birkenbihl is accurate. I can imagine something of the sort being said in a popular exposition of the reception of quantum mechanics. But whether she said anything like it or not, the idea expressed in the quote is a poor one, especially so in the context it was quoted from.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: