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Maybe I should have used a better example then. Like Newton and alchemy maybe? My point was more you can be intelligent, educated, etc. and still have dumb beli
by m-theory 3y ago
Maybe I should have used a better example then. Like Newton and alchemy maybe? My point was more you can be intelligent, educated, etc. and still have dumb beliefs. I agree with you about the flat earther stuff.
Funnily enough, I used to work on a project called Hollow Earth. That team loved to joke around with conspiracy theories.
- defrost 3y agoNewton the last alchemist is a good example. > dumb beliefs. You sure about that though? There was no stone capable of turn base metal into gold - that knowledge of atomic transition via fission and fusion came later - but ( important point here ) a large amount of 'alchemy' worked just fine .. you followed the process and the stuff claimed happened just as the recipe said. It did transform into what we now call chemistry.