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Article #4291Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion
From: Roger M. Wilcox
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3sgiq8$eqt@electra.saaf.se> pausch@electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
>In article <803637261snz@dakal.demon.co.uk>,
>Richard Linsley Hood <richardlh@dakal.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Einstein himself could reasonably have been described as a 'crackpot'
>> by Newtonians.
>
>Only if you disregard the "minor detail" that the predictions by his
>theories later turned out to be correct.....
That never stopped other fringe-scientists from being labelled crackpots.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public From: rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox) Subject: Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion Date: 1995/06/26 Message-ID: <3snf6u$j4f@cronkite.cisco.com> X-Deja-AN: 105161758 references: <3s3iqk$nn3@electra.saaf.se> <803637261snz@dakal.demon.co.uk> <3sgiq8$eqt@electra.saaf.se> organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, Ca. newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian