When the Blind Lead the Blind

We can also add in to these blind pronouncements by the 'scientific
establishment' the Big Bang theory as well Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

--
14th Century - King Philip VI of France asked University of Paris
medical faculty for the cause of the 1347 Black Death outbreak (when the
bacterium yersinia pestis arrived from Asia, killing one-third to
one-half of Europeans within two years).
The "doctors'" answer - published and accepted by the intelligentsia -
"A triple conjunction in the constellation of Aquarius (20 March 1345),
naturally caused the pestilence which followed."

18th Century - Lavoisier speaking to the Academy of Sciences (Paris,
France) - on peasants' reports of meteorites -
"There are no stones in the sky - therefore stones cannot fall from the sky"

19th Century - UK's premier scientific body, the Royal Society,
persistently refused papers from Waterston and Joule, instead preferring
to cling to illogical "phlogiston theory" until 1848.

19th Century - Lord Kelvin (doyen of European physics) - "X-rays are a
hoax - Radio has no future - Heavier than air flying machines are
impossible." - president of the Royal Society, 1890-95

19th Century - the future physics Nobel Laureate, Albert Michelson, to
an audience at University of Chicago -
"The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have
all been discovered .. the possibility of their ever being supplanted in
consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote" - 1894

19th Century - the Royal Society (London, England) passed a resolution
to the effect that - "Man's knowledge of the universe is complete and
everything worthwhile has been invented" - 1895

20th Century - British `Astronomer Royal' - "Space travel is utter
bilge" (R.v.Riet Wooley) - 1926

20th Century - Ernest Rutherford (Baron, Nobel prizewinner, leading
British physicist - see "Royal Society") - "The energy produced by the
breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who
expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is
talking moonshine." - 1933

"Imperishable Stars" wrote in message
ers.com...

*yawn*

Care to discuss the EOS of a neutron star?

nightbat wrote

Wally Anglesea wrote:

"Imperishable Stars" wrote in message
ers.com...

*yawn*

Care to discuss the EOS of a neutron star?

nightbat

Ha, ha, go back to sleep Wally, for the subject apparently is
way over your energy and electron non oscillating sleepy head.


the nightbat

"nightbat" wrote in message
...
nightbat wrote

Wally Anglesea wrote:

"Imperishable Stars" wrote in message
ers.com...

*yawn*

Care to discuss the EOS of a neutron star?

nightbat

Ha, ha, go back to sleep Wally, for the subject apparently is
way over your energy and electron non oscillating sleepy head.

Hardly.

Oh, just in case you missed it: All of your examples (which didn't
copy over here again) have been superceded by later research. See,
science self-corrects its error-prone practitioners!

As my ex-boss at Kitt Peak told me one time when our research didn't
give the results he expected: That's why you do the research. You
want the TRUTH, not what you THINK is the truth.

Saul Levy


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 02:11:12 GMT, Imperishable Stars
wrote:

We can also add in to these blind pronouncements by the 'scientific
establishment' the Big Bang theory as well Darwin's Theory of Evolution.