Einstein's Relativity and Post-Truth Science

John Norton: "In addition to his work as editor of the Einstein papers in finding source material, Stachel assembled the many small clues that reveal Einstein's serious consideration of an emission theory of light; and he gave us the crucial insight that Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost universally use it as support for the light postulate of special relativity. Even today, this point needs emphasis. The Michelson-Morley experiment is fully compatible with an emission theory of light that contradicts the light postulate." http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1743/2/Norton.pdf

So Stachel and Norton have discovered that almost all Einsteinians ("later writers") are liars and use the Michelson-Morley experiment "as support for the light postulate of special relativity", knowing that the experiment "is fully compatible with an emission theory of light that contradicts the light postulate". Are Stachel and Norton embarrassed? Not at all. Is the scientific community embarrassed? Not at all. In post-truth science, liars are respected scientists. Truth-tellers are cranks, crackpots, trolls etc.

Pentcho Valev