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Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?
Date	2023-08-26 17:03 +1000
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On 25-Aug-23 1:15 pm, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
> By being indoctrinated in an ideology.
> 
> Why can't they defend that with reason?
> 
> Because they weren't persuaded by reason.

Do you ever wonder how a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his 
twenties came to be accepted by the vast majority of physicists? Even if 
it were true now that he is a supreme scientific figure whom no one can 
contradict (spoiler alert, it's not), it wouldn't have been the case then.

Sylvia.

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