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This may violate the HN policies about name-calling or shallow dismissals, but is also either derogatory to actual idiots or factually incorrect.
by cwmoore 4y ago
This may violate the HN policies about name-calling or shallow dismissals, but is also either derogatory to actual idiots or factually incorrect.
- shrimp_emoji 4y ago>factually incorrect Einstein smoked, so I would agree with this. ;p
- DangitBobby 4y agoNot that I agree with OP but... I don't think Einstein lived in a time where the harms of smoking were so well documented.
- guerrilla 4y agobut it was still inhaling smoke which we are clearly not meant to do. That was OP's point. It wasn't that we shouldn't smoke because of the things we've learned since.
- eric_h 4y agoMy mother was a cardiovascular pharmacologist and worked with many people who knew at the time that smoking was bad for your health (70s, 80s, 90s). She smoked for decades, but she observed that the doctors and phds she worked with that specialized in the heart and lungs were more likely to be smokers. She quit many years ago and is still around, thankfully.
- cwmoore 4y agoEinstein is a strong counterexample, but to account for changing times, there are some notable non-idiots more recently: https://josephcrusejohnson.blogspot.com/2017/10/morris-chang.html https://josephcrusejohnson.blogspot.com/2017/10/morris-chang...