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This site is promoting a rather selective set of ”famous scientists”. For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but raci

• hk__2 4y ago
  > For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but racist pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are listed. Maybe those pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are more "well known" than the Nobel laureates? Also, these are not opposites: there are various examples of Nobel laureates that later became pseudoscientists (see Luc Montagnier [1]). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Controversies
  • trompetenaccoun 4y ago
    "Pseudoscientist" in those cases just means they came to disagree with the current dogma. See also people like Kary Mullis or John Ioannidis. You can't have done real science at one point and then retroactively be declared a non-scientist by people who in many cases couldn't solve a simple equation, let alone conduct the research those people did. Mullis' case is especially ironic, I've heard him called a "conspiracy theorist" by people who use his invention on a daily basis.