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Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016

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Op 02-jan-2017 om 12:52 schreef Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog:
> On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-6, Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
>> Op 01-jan-2017 om 20:34 schreef Pentcho Valev:
>>> Einsteinans against climatologists:
>>>
>>> http://motls.blogspot.fr/2017/01/lindzen-me-us-climate-science-needs-to.html
>>>  Lubos Motl: "Just like we often say that communism cannot be
>>> reformed, the same is true for the real-world composition of the
>>> climate science community today. It just cannot be reformed. Most of
>>> the new people were selected on the basis that they're either stupid
>>> or politically obsessed to repeat Al Gore's and similar junk about
>>> climate catastrophes. They're just bad material, rotten apples. You
>>> can't "fix" them. And I think that even if you could miraculously fix
>>> them and make most of the climatologists honest, it would be morally
>>> nice but still pretty much worthless from the viewpoint of science.
>>> Science just doesn't need this many climatologists."
>>
>> What science needs is irrelevant in this context.
>> This many climatologists are needed by the PLANET.
>> Never heard of this Motl, but he sounds like an idiot.
>
> Motl provides a good demonstration of the principle that brilliance in one field
> does not guarantee against crackpottery in another. He is a brilliant Czech
> theoretical physicist who first achieved recognition while still an
> undergraduate. He is also a global warming denier, his political views are
> "idiosyncratic", and he is well known for savagely attacking researchers who
> express doubts about string theory, using as armament unfair debating tactics
> such as ad hominem attacks, selective snipping, deliberate misquoting, etc.
>
> Despite his many faults, his blog is well worth reading:
> http://motls.blogspot.com/
>

Had a quick look.
"Savagely attacking researchers who express doubts about
string theory"... That sounds like I won't bother having
a closer look at that blog. I don't like blogs anyway.

Cheers and a cool 2017!

Dirk Vdm

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The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-12-31 02:24 -0800
  Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 HGW <hw@....> - 2017-01-02 06:07 +1100
  The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-01 11:34 -0800
    Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2017-01-01 21:11 +0100
      Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-01 14:04 -0800
        Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 HGW <hw@....> - 2017-01-02 09:48 +1100
          Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2017-01-02 01:18 +0000
        Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-02 12:23 +1100
          Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2017-01-02 19:28 +0100
            Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-02 12:08 -0800
              Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Demetrice Barren <teercere@tmerunin.tme> - 2017-01-02 20:29 +0000
          Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2017-01-02 22:17 +0100
            Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-03 14:47 +1100
      Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2017-01-02 08:30 +0100
        Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2017-01-02 19:40 +0100
          Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Python <python@python.invalid> - 2017-01-03 12:10 +0100
        Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Demetrice Barren <teercere@tmerunin.tme> - 2017-01-02 19:06 +0000
      Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2017-01-02 03:52 -0800
        Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2017-01-02 19:35 +0100
          Re: The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 05:42 -0800
    The Biggest Physics Breakthrough of 2016 Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-02 03:10 -0800

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