Mockery (was Re: JSH: Playing with infinities)

From: Robert Vienneau (rvien_at_see.sig.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:51:45 -0500

In article <1107217083.299151.211280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
jonhoyle@mac.com wrote:

> >> I fear you are frauds who know next to nothing about mathematics,
> but
> >> instead play silly games with each other with abstruse works you
> don't
> >> even really understand, and you just got caught by forces you can't
> >> comprehend, and the consequences are far greater than you can, even
> >> now, imagine.
 
> Yes, you are finally on to us. None of us are mathematicians. In
> fact, all the universities throughout the world are stock with frauds
> like this. You can test our fraudelence by simply seeing if we accept
> your brilliant work...and since none of us have, the only logical
> conclusion is that there are no mathematicians. (Think about it, have
> you ever met a "true" mathematician, one who has passed this one simple
> test?)
>
> Our job is to keep the one single mathematician in the world (you) from
> ever publishing your impressive works. This is why every attempt you
> have made to publish got blocked. This wide-spread conspiracy is quite
> intricate, as you can see.
>
> Now, if only the tri-lateral commission would let the Eagles win the
> Super-Bowl on Sunday... :-)

This mockery is supposed to be describing a situation utterly
improbable. But, amazingly enough, the mainstream economists on
sci.econ have been mostly behaving like that for over a decade. Here's
documentation of the extraordinary ignorance of many Usenet economists:

  <http://www.dreamscape.com/rvien/Fumbles/Fumbles.html>

I anticipate more publications. I don't think adding more articles to
the literature showing that mainstream economists are trying to remake
the world to fit an incorrect theory will change anything.

And mainstream academic economists have mostly abandoned Usenet, instead
of acknowledging the errors in their teaching and practice. 

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