I did not see that program, but Joe says he recently saw Mandelbrot
(perhaps on that program) assigned by the interviewer credit for the
butterfly effect. Instead of saying oh no, that was Ed Lorenz, he just
sat there smiling, not contradicting. Bad form, very bad form.
On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Douglas Roberts wrote:
I suppose that when the RWRDDA movement (Right Wing Religious
Dumbing Down of America) movement becomes sufficiently intolerable to
more of our scientific community, additional folks will begin to
speak out on the subject. Perhaps if we get a Creationist Vice
President the process will accelerate!
Speaking of Mavericks, there's an entertaining Nova called "Hunting
the Hidden Dimension" starring among others Benoit Mandelbrot, and
SFI's Geoffrey West, James Brown, and Brian Enquist. In particular,
the program notes how the mathematics establishment regarded
Mandelbrot's research as not being an important contribution. There
are other sources of dogma besides from religious folks. Dogma also
can be advanced when scientists have their prominence threatened by
competing approaches...
Marcus
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