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> > http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
> > George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
> > though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
> > includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
> > logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
> > inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
> > thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
> > Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
>
> > http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-22.html#twentytwo
> > George Orwell: "He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He
> > presented himself with propositions - "the Party says the earth is
> > flat", "the party says that ice is heavier than water" - and trained
> > himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that
> > contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of
> > reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for
> > instance, by such a statement as "two and two make five" were beyond
> > his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind,
> > an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at
> > the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity
> > was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."
>
> > George Orwell's text modified so as to describe a physics student's
> > self-education:
>
> > "He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself
> > with propositions - "Einsteiniana says that, when the observer starts
> > moving towards the light source, the Doppler effect is due to shift
> > inwavelength, not to shift in the speed of light", "Einsteiniana says
> > that, in accordance with Einstein's 1905 light postulate, a 80m long
> > pole can safely be trapped inside a 40m long barn" - and trained
> > himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that
> > contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of
> > reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for
> > instance, by such a statement as "two and two make five" were beyond
> > his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind,
> > an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at
> > the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity
> > was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."
>
> John Norton, the cleverest Einsteinian, exercising himself in and
> teaching crimestop. The TEXT IN CAPITALS is an obvious stupidity but
> John Norton and his students sincerely believe in it:
>
> http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/index.html
> John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer
> were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now
> pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would
> mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to
> have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE
> BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."
>
> Without the "protective stupidity" John Norton would have to explain
> that it is the speed of light that varies with the frequency when the
> observer starts hurrying towards the source of light.

A sound question challenging Einstein's 1905 false light postulate
(note how stupid the answer is):

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_the_relative_speed_of_light_be_constant_when_the_Doppler_shift_of_light_suggests_addition_or_subtraction_of_velocities
Question: How can the relative speed of light be constant when the
Doppler shift of light suggests addition or subtraction of velocities?

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