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If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3155/
Relevant xkcd on an xkcd?
A recent one too!
That is my favorite of all of them! Yes!
I really thought this was just going to be a link to the same comic. Shame on me for doubting ig
I dunno, the “path to ruin” looks pretty profitable…
Nobody said it was your ruin
And this is how you get a positive crackpot index.
Though I’ve known legit physicists and engineers take pride in [their] >0 CI.
I feel like it’s all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.
Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)
If any paper contains these misspellings of Feynman, Einstein or Hawking I would consider them at best sloppy writers.
To be fair they’re physicists, not English majors
Sure, but misspelling historically significant names is a pretty bad sign for any flavor of science really.
I’m pretty sure Brits would want to stone me if I called that apple guy Newdon.
It’s just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.
I’m sure Randall Munroe knows this better than most, but Einstein’s insight more derailed physics than overturned it. What I mean is that the path it seemed like physics was on at the time was torn out from under the establishment. But it’s not like the work done to that point was discarded.
Eric Weinstein.
And his brother Bret. Pompous ass. I can’t believe I have college credits from his ivermectin ass.
I’m not unhealthy, they’re educated stupid.
If you can get a billionaire or two to back you, the right path can be profitable, and take decades to undo.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
