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Re: The greatest baby step

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On 7/26/2023 10:00 PM, Prokaryotic Capase Homolog wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 4:57:51 PM UTC-5, whodat wrote:
> 
>> It is posited ideas that matter, not persons.
> 
> One of my Wikipedia acquaintances is an anti-Einstein
> crackpot who, at the same time, is quite competent in
> the theories that he claims Einstein stole whole-heartedly
> from Poincare, Lorentz, Minkowski, etc. He's written a
> book bashing Einstein, and maintains a blog where he
> constantly rants against Einstein, evolution, how the
> U.S. is being overrun by non-white minorities, transgender
> people, atheists, Jews, Chinese, the teaching of foreign
> languages in school, etc.
> 
> Nevertheless, when he posts a technical correction to
> a physics article in Wikipedia, he generally knows what
> he is writing about. He contributions to physics history,
> however, always bear close watching.

And still, your emphasis above is on the ideas. It
seems to me that the ideas stand for themselves and
your interest in the person is secondary if that
actually has any significance.

Consider please that relativity as a concept is still
important today whether any person is pro or con. And
Einstein as well as any others who had a hand in
creating the concept(s) are long dead, still the
ideas live on and continue to be fought over. The
originator(s) are unimportant and frankly always
were. The same thing is true of those generating
input today. I post as "whodat" because who I am
is of no consequence, my ideas/words should speak
for themselves and for very much the same reason I
have not "outed" Jane/Laurence. We spar, but AFAIC
that is a matter of dissenting ideas, not dissenting
people regardless of how difficult isolating people
from their ideas may be from time to time.

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The greatest baby step   Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-25 18:23 +0000
  Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-25 20:45 +0200
    Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-25 19:28 +0000
      Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-25 22:08 +0200
        Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-25 20:41 +0000
        Re: The greatest baby step Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 08:11 -0700
          Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-26 15:57 +0000
          Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 18:19 +0200
            Re: The greatest baby step Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 22:03 -0700
          Re: The greatest baby step Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-07-26 13:39 -0400
            Re: The greatest baby step Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 22:03 -0700
              Re: The greatest baby step Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-07-28 01:16 -0400
                Re: The greatest baby step Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-07-27 23:06 -0700
          Re: The greatest baby step whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-07-26 16:57 -0500
            Re: The greatest baby step Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 20:00 -0700
              Re: The greatest baby step whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-07-27 00:05 -0500
                Re: The greatest baby step Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-27 08:09 -0700
            Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-27 09:33 +0000
  Re: The greatest baby step   Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-25 19:32 +0000
  Re: The greatest baby step   Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-26 16:00 +0000
    Re: The greatest baby step Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 09:19 -0700
    Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 18:23 +0200
      Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-26 16:38 +0000
        Re: The greatest baby step Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 11:06 -0700
          Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 20:33 +0200
            Re: The greatest baby step Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-07-26 19:11 +0000
              Re: The greatest baby step Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-07-27 08:59 +0200
            Re: The greatest baby step Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 16:00 -0700

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