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On 2023-08-15 16:57:47 +0000, Laurence Clark Crossen said:

> On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-7, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> On 2023-08-13 19:07:35 +0000, Laurence Clark Crossen said:>> > On 
>> Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 12:03:49 PM UTC-7, Athel Cornish-Bowden 
>> wrote:> >> On 2023-08-13 18:26:37 +0000, Laurence Clark Crossen said:>> 
>> >> >> charlatan[char·la·tan || 'ʃɑːlətən]> > n. quack, impostor, fraud, 
>> one> >> who claims more skill or knowledge than> > he actually 
>> has....Origin:> >> C17 (denoting an itinerant seller of> > supposed 
>> remedies): from Fr.,> >> from Ital. ciarlatano, from ciarlare 'to> > 
>> babble'."-Babylon> >> Dictionary.> >> > For example, one who says 2 + 
>> 2= five or that he can> >> change the> > distance and time in the speed 
>> equation to keep the speed> >> the same> > regardless of relative 
>> motion.> >> > For example,> >> relativists.> >> > Thousands of 
>> scientists have long recognized that> >> relativity is> > charlatanry 
>> when they point out that the emperor has> >> no clothes.> > 
>> Authoritative source: "Einstein and the Emperor's New> >> Clothes 
>> Syndrome:> > The Expose of a Charlatan" by Robert L. Henderson> >> 
>> c.2006. Not to> > mention many others who have made the same 
>> comparison.> >> Citing another crackpot with no evident qualifications 
>> in physics> >> won't> convince anyone apart from other crackpots who 
>> are convinced> >> already.>> What's the basis for your 
>> "Authoritative"?>>> --> athel --> >> biochemist, not a physicist, but 
>> detector of crackpots> > The basis is reasoning. The reasoning of the 
>> critics is correct, and> > the defenders of relativity are gibberish. 
>> The point is relativity is> > totally phony, as has been shown if you 
>> would ever deign to examine the> > critic's works which you are 
>> ignorant of because of your weak-minded> > inclination to appeal to 
>> authority.
>> Please point to somewhere where you think I appealed to authority. You> 
>> were the one who appealed to authority ("Authoritative source: 
>> Einstein> and the Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome"). Your "authority" 
>> was entirely> based on his writing stuff that agreed with your 
>> crackpottery.
>> --
>> athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots
> You don't understand that everyone must choose their own authorities or 
> rely on an appeal to authority instead of reason.

You need to look up "authoritative" in a dictionary, as it doesn't mean 
what you seem to think. Specifically, it doesn't mean that any text 
that has an author is authoritative. I remind you that it was you, not 
me, that introduced the word  "authoritative" to this discussion.


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

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charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 11:26 -0700
  Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 11:42 -0700
    Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 12:04 -0700
      Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 12:59 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:53 -0700
      Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 02:14 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 05:55 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 06:00 -0700
            Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 09:57 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 09:56 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 10:11 -0700
            Re: charlatan syndrome Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-16 02:02 -0400
          Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 10:17 -0700
            Re: charlatan syndrome whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-15 15:27 -0500
            Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 15:54 -0700
              Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 17:52 -0700
              Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 20:56 -0700
    Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-08-14 10:35 +0000
  Re: charlatan syndrome Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 21:03 +0200
    Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 12:07 -0700
      Re: charlatan syndrome Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 09:25 +0200
        Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 01:15 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 09:55 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 10:01 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-15 15:16 -0500
        Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 09:57 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 10:03 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 19:05 +0200
            Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 10:16 -0700
              Re: charlatan syndrome whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-15 15:26 -0500
          Re: charlatan syndrome whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-15 15:20 -0500
  Re: charlatan syndrome Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-13 15:31 -0400
    Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 12:49 -0700
    Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:14 -0700
      Re: charlatan syndrome Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:45 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:47 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:52 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-08-14 10:46 +0000
        Re: charlatan syndrome patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-08-14 07:12 -0700
          Crank syndrome "Dono." <eggy20011951@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 07:17 -0700
          Re: charlatan syndrome Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 10:05 -0700
            Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 13:43 -0700
              Re: charlatan syndrome Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 14:10 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 19:26 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 21:18 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 21:58 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-16 19:01 -0400
                Re: charlatan syndrome Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-08-16 17:29 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-16 22:11 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2023-08-18 21:56 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-18 22:47 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 23:44 -0700
                Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 21:09 -0700
      Re: charlatan syndrome JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 16:28 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-13 19:13 -0500
        Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 21:18 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-08-14 10:52 +0000
          Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 09:59 -0700
        Re: charlatan syndrome Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-15 01:15 -0400
          Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 23:42 -0700
            Re: charlatan syndrome Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-16 02:09 -0400
              Re: charlatan syndrome Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 23:22 -0700
  Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:10 -0700
    Re: charlatan syndrome Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 09:27 +0200
  Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:49 -0700
    Re: charlatan syndrome Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:56 -0700

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