Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Stephen Black writes: Which brings to mind one of its more famous victims, Sigmund Freud, and the supremely sly and ironic comment he is claimed to have added when asked to sign a document attesting to good treatment by the Gestapo: I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone. […]

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Mike Palij writes: It's an interesting story but, of course, Deutsche Physik fell out of favour even with the Nazis, Werner Heisenberg (yes, the uncertainty Heisenberg, not the Breaking Bad Heisenberg) was a proponent of Einstein's theory (as well as being well connected to high ranking Nazi

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:58:22 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote: Mike Palij writes: It's an interesting story but, of course, Deutsche Physik fell out of favour even with the Nazis, Werner Heisenberg (yes, the uncertainty Heisenberg, not the Breaking Bad Heisenberg) was a proponent of Einstein's theory

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Mike Palij started his response (below) to my pointing out that his assertion that Heisenberg was well connected to high ranking Nazi Heinrich Himmler is misleading as follows: Well, as you say, it depends upon what one means by well connected. Evidently Mike missed that my opening sentence

[tips] Course evaluations and number of scale categories

2010-08-24 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I wonder if people know of any research or have experience with course evaluations using different number of scale categories? It has been suggested here for some purposes, to use just two categories: Unsatisfactory vs. Satisfactory. I'm familiar with the general literature on number of