> X-rays are a hoax. -Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900 Gwern Branwen did a bunch of research to track down this quote, concluding: > there there is no reliable primary s

> X-rays are a hoax. -Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900 Gwern Branwen did a bunch of research to track down this quote, concluding: > there there is no reliable primary source for any Kelvin quotation running "X-rays are a hoax"; and there's some reasonable doubt about what he actually believed in the short interval between reading newspaper articles (I think we've all had the experience of seeing newspaper articles on some new scientific proposal which bore scant resemblance to reality!) and getting Rontgen's paper & photos. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:William_Thomson#.22X-rays_will_prove_to_be_a_hoax.22 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:William_Thomson#.22X-rays...