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Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals?

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On 2023-03-09 19:00:47 +0000, RichD said:

> On March 9, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> No one outside Canada and the USA has heard of the War of 1812.
>> Americans tend to forget why it was fought, who won
> 
> Americans have never cared for history.  Like, it's over, it's
> irrelevant, you know?  They aren't obsessed with the past,
> a la Europeans.

I notice that you skipped the bit about James Madison's heroism at the 
Battle of Bladensburg.
> 
> It's moot whether this cultural attitude is healthy or not.
> 
> Last month I was in a pizza restaurant, with the picnic table
> furnishing.  A bunch of schoolkids were at a table, studying
> for an exam...   "Next, the viet nam war...  what was that about?
> Whose side were we on?"


-- 
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2023-03-09 03:44 -0800
  Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 04:40 -0800
    Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 14:53 +0100
      Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 06:11 -0800
        Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 15:29 +0100
      Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-03-09 15:20 +0100
        Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 06:38 -0800
          Odious kapo Richard Hertz at work "Dono." <eggy20011951@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 06:43 -0800
        Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 15:59 +0100
          Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 07:22 -0800
          Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2023-03-09 10:36 -0800
            Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 20:36 +0100
          Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-03-09 19:52 +0100
          Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2023-03-09 11:00 -0800
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      Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-03-09 18:08 +0100
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              Re: Are Theoretical Physicists Criminals? Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.crossen@hotmail.com> - 2023-03-10 10:34 -0800
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