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Showing Original Post only (View all)i have my doubts about gravity because newton was a slave-trading heretic [View all]
and computers? are you kidding? turing was teh gay!
game theory? oh come ON! have you seen "a beautiful mind"??
i'm going to be researching a lot more about the people who come up with all these wacky ideas, some of which we've been brainwashed with in school and college. if the people behind these ideas and figures and such are not morally right, religiously right, sexually right, clean as an arrow and pure of soul, i'm not really going to believe any of their so-called "physics" or "math" or "facts" or whatever else they're peddling!
ben franklin was a notorious philanderer! what did he get his mitts on?
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i have my doubts about gravity because newton was a slave-trading heretic [View all]
unblock
Aug 2013
OP
Ada Lovelace, the worlds very first computer-programmer, was a woman. Does that count?
DetlefK
Aug 2013
#10
well i can easily dodge this question as i've already dismissed computers entirely ;)
unblock
Aug 2013
#11
and the Royal Society is a buncha Rosicrucians! and Copernicus cited Hermes Trismegistus!
MisterP
Aug 2013
#14
The OP is obviously a reaction to something that s/he thinks everybody knows about ...
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2013
#15
well it's reasonable to dismiss everything i post, anyway. i'm an atheist, after all!
unblock
Aug 2013
#20
worse, einstein had an *agenda*! there was even some talk about him and the presidency of israel!
unblock
Aug 2013
#35
i never had a problem with that, but the credibility of its proponents has be called into question.
unblock
Aug 2013
#59
*i* understand the concept. but i'm told to focus on the proponents rather than the data
unblock
Aug 2013
#90
Is That What This Is About? Comparing A Law of Physics To Glenn Greenwalds Reporting?
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#87
Is This Post About Newton and the Law of Gravity? Is the OP Unclear on the Concept of Testable
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#47
So His Reporting Is Akin To A Law of Physics? His Claims Are Testable and Falsifiable?
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#88
You're Comparing Ideas about Democracy with a Law of Physics? Are They The Same Type of Thing?
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#44
What Facts? Scientific Facts And Laws of Physics? Or Unfalsifiable Claims Made by Individuals?
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#102
Still No Examples of People Questioning Laws of Physics I See, Just Non-Sequitors
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#123
What Sort of Pick Up Line Is That? Now I'm Losing Interest, You Better Step It Up Pal!
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#136
No, But No One Has The Courage To Actually Admit What It's About Because You All Know How Flawed
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#141
Now You're Singing To Me! I'm So Flattered! You Know You Want To Ask Me Out, Don't Be Shy!
Skraxx
Aug 2013
#164
you're right! outside of the lab, we have to base everything on people's reputations and character.
unblock
Aug 2013
#106
I'm glad you cleared this up because right here on DU a Random poster told us that
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#93