Re: Woo Peddlers, Visionaries and Cranks!
Posted by
glen ep ropella on
May 06, 2013; 8:16pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Woo-Peddlers-Visionaries-and-Cranks-tp7583094p7583096.html
Saul Caganoff wrote at 05/05/2013 09:58 PM:
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http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/why-listen-to-weird-ideas3f/4666056I like her comment that mainstream science (or did she say physics?)
consists of _collective_ theory. It re-raises our question of the
importance of consensus to science.
I also enjoyed that she lumped Wolfram in with the "cranks" ... [ahem]
... "outsiders".
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