Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science
From: Daryl McCullough (stevendaryl3016_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: 17 Mar 2005 09:07:47 -0800
You know, there is a romantic notion of the brave, free-thinking
iconoclast being repressed by the closed-minded establishment.
You might think that the uncensored nature of USENET would be
a perfect forum for such free-thinkers. But in my experience, the
"dissidents" (AKA "crackpots") on USENET are not complaining about
how *closed-minded* the establishment is, but how *open-minded*.
Their complaints are about how nonsensical relativity, or quantum
mechanics, or Cantorian set theory, or Godel's theory is. What these
dissidents want is not a hearing for their *new* ideas (because they
rarely have any), but for other ideas to be banished.
It's really a totalitarian mindset, not free-thinking.
-- Daryl McCullough Ithaca, NY
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