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To: Rummyfan
Michael Mann isn't really a scientist. Oh, yes, I'm sure he still dabbles in it now and then just to keep his hand in. But the bulk of his energies are devoted to getting people who disagree with him fired, banned or silenced. Real Nobel Prize winners (as opposed to fraudulent self-garlanded ones) don't do that. But every day Dr Mann is demanding that someone be shut up.

It seems unlikely that Albert Einstein lobbied people to be censored or fired because they "denied" relativity. Or Watson and Crick because people denied the helical structure of DNA. Or Richard Feynmann because people denied the mathematics of quantum chromodynamics.

Maybe Feymann would have argued that Albert Einstein should be fired from his job at Princeton because he was a quantum theory skeptic. Bah!

4 posted on 04/06/2014 1:31:22 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: AZLiberty

Actually when the Nazi regime got 100 German scientists to sign a paper condeming the theory of relativity, Einstein’s reply was that it was unnecessary with so many signatures. One would have been enough if he or she had been right. But then Einstein was a real scientist.


15 posted on 04/06/2014 5:40:50 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: AZLiberty
Or Richard Feynmann because people denied the mathematics of quantum chromodynamics.

Feynman could hardly have done that, since he was one of them. He regarded the path integral formulation as laughably suspect; but justified because -- and only because -- it worked.

27 posted on 04/06/2014 11:06:56 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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