Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> That would be a pretty sweet quote to have.
> In the meantime, speaking of crankery/crackpottery, Boyer is here talking
> about scientific crackpots, but I imagine it would be easy to understand
> this in terms of economics.
> http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=435:how-i-found-glaring-errors-in-einsteins-calculations&catid=57:pascals-blog&Itemid=34
> for your amusement.

the first paragraph is great:
>Call me radical, call me a maverick. Rather than slavishly swallowing the 
>scientific orthodoxy from establishment textbooks, I decided to go back to the 
>original papers. I have identified several embarassing errors of mathematics 
>and physical reasoning in Einstein’s original 1905 paper on the 
>“Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, the alleged beginning of “special 
>relativity”, one of the main tenets of standard modern physics (despite its 
>manifest absurdity). Once Einstein’s errors are corrected, we can establish a 
>new foundation for physics that is consistent with commonsense experience, and 
>does not require fancy mathematical tricks. Not surprisingly, I have been 
>thwarted in all my attempts to publish these findings in scientific journals, 
>which is why I have decided to post them on the Internet.<

(his tongue is securely lodged in his cheek.)

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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