On 12 March2013 Chris Green listed several conspiracy "cannot"s, including
thefollowing:
>Aminority man cannot have been elected president
>by amajority of American voters, therefore...
Here'sanother conspiracy theory, this time from the field of science. According
tothe PBS website accompanying the documentary "Einstein's Wife"broadcast in
2003, in regard to Einstein's three celebrated 1905 papers:
>Eventoday, with the aid of super-computers, it is hard to
>imagine thatany scientist could produce so much significant
>work, on such widelyvaried topics, within a single year. Yet
>Einstein did it withoutcomputers, while he was working full
>time. Or did he?
The answer,according to "Einstein's Wife", is no, he did not work alone on
the1905 papers, his Serbian first wife Mileva Marić was actually
co-author.Moreover, according to the British sociologist Hilary Rose, Einstein
has to beheld culpable for "withholding recognition of Mileva's contribution to
the[1905] achievement" (Love, Power andKnowledge: Towards a Feminist
Transformation of the Sciences (1905, p.143); reprinted in Women, Science,
andTechnology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies (2001, p. 56) But the
conspiracy goes wider than that,according to the much-cited Swiss linguist
Senta Troemel-Ploetz: "If itwere not for the cultural imperialism of the US
academic establishment, itmight be known in Princeton what is known in Novi Sad
[the Marić familyhome town]: Einstein-Marić was the scientific collaborator of
her husband"("Mileva Einstein-Marić: The Woman Who Did Einstein's Mathematics",
Women's Studies International Forum,vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 415-432, 1990).
The claim,if not the conspiracy angle, has been recycled in several books over
recentyears by authors with respectable academic credentials, though the
numerousfactual errors promulgated in their writings have to be seen to be
believed (or,rather, disbelieved!).
If I mayblow my own trumpet here, Sage Open has just published my detailed
rebuttal ofHilary Rose's claims that covers the main contentions purporting to
demonstratethat Mileva Marić contributed to Einstein's 1905 papers:
http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/3/1/2158244013478014.full.pdf+html
P.S. Anacknowledgement: A fellow TIPSter, Stephen Black, has to be credited
withigniting my interest in following up the Mileva Marić story with his
posting on TIPSway back in 2005 when he linked to this nationally syndicated
cartoon::
http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/2005/11/20/
AllenEsterson
Formerlecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
[email protected]
http://www.esterson.org
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From:
Christopher Green <[email protected]>
Subject:
Re: conspiracy theorists
Date:
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:40:11 -0400
Hypothesis:When you are unable to accept that an obvious fact is true (either
because itis too emotionally painful, or because it contradicts prior beliefs
that youregard as imperative), the only explanation is that it has only been
made toseem true by a hidden conspiracy.
Aninspirational political leader cannot have been silenced by a lone
nut,therefore...
A smallband of brigands cannot have brought down iconic buildings through
adeceptively simple plan, therefore...
A minorityman cannot have been elected president by a majority of American
voters,therefore...
The ideathat I should have the freedom to own any gun I might want, regardless
of itspower and capacity, cannot have been undermined by a single horrific
act,therefore...
Chris
.......
ChristopherD Green
Departmentof Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
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