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> Lysenko You're sympathetically comparing him to Lysenko, which only proves my point: both were unscientific charlatans legitimized by leftists, to the detrim
by 462436347 3y ago
> Lysenko
You're sympathetically comparing him to Lysenko, which only proves my point: both were unscientific charlatans legitimized by leftists, to the detriment of many.
- EGreg 3y agoThe vast majority of people in new disciplines were like that at the time. Rigor comes later. I mean, didn’t most physicists in the 19th century believe the Earth was no more than 100 million years old? And everyone was afraid to challenge them until radioactivity was discovered. Bloodletting and leeches and phlogiston and humours and spontaneous generation - same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle How about today’s pioneers… Is Bem a charlatan? Is B J Fogg? Robert Cialdini? Erik von Markovik from Mystery Method? Jeremy Miner from NEPQ? LOL