Re: Are physics cranks employed?


PD wrote:
This is post more about the sociology of the group than about physics.
If you find it OT, ignore it.

I find it interesting that most of the cranks that post here have
similar sentiments:
- Teachers only want to squash students and brainwash them.
- Teachers are afraid of thinkers with original ideas that the teachers
did not come up with themselves.
- The common rejection of the ideas posed by amateurs is a sign of
cronyism and an effort to maintain the static quo.
- Original thinkers did best by *rejecting* the teachings of their
teachers.
- Original thinkers revolutionize science by *exposing* the
brainwashing and cronyism of their teachers.

I think it is wonderful that these cranks have an interest in the
subject I love. Is the scientific method so delicate that it must be
protected? Even if they are mis guided is is so bad at least they are
showing an interested which is more than can be said for the popular
media.


I wonder how many of these people have gainful employment and how they
are doing in their careers. Employers have to train junior employees,
just as teachers have to train students. And if someone seeks
employment, I would think that it would be implicit that the employee
expects to receive some on-the-job training and supervision by a senior
employee. Mind you, this is not to keep the employee under foot, it's
to make the employee better at their job. If I were an employer and I
had an employee that consistently questioned what I was saying, I don't
think I would have a problem with that, especially if s/he showed
promise in some way. But if they suspected everything I said *because
of* the employer-employee relationship, then I think I would ask them
why they sought employment here in the first place.

There are several here that are unemployed (aside from those retired)
and several that are barely employed. Most know who they are. I won't
venture names.
I am unemployed but I can't help but feel the ability to beleive ones
own rubbish, no matter what evidence to the opposit is an advantage in
this day and age. (Yes I know I can't spell, get over it, does it make
my arguements any less valid it is not as if you don't know what I
mean.)


Thoughts?

PD

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