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Re: KC01905 post# 46323

Monday, 03/04/2019 6:34:56 PM

Monday, March 04, 2019 6:34:56 PM

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Not me...I offered a contemporary explanation...not that it matters.

“It is a logical fallacy to assume that simply because an idea is severely attacked, it must therefore have merit. Any geographer attempting to resurrect belief in the flat-earth hypoth- esis, for example, would be harshly criticized by their colleagues, but this criticism cannot be adduced as evidence that flat-earthism is on the rise. As historian of science Michael Shermer has recently pointed out [31], “They laughed at Copernicus. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. Yes, well, they also laughed at the Marx Brothers. Being laughed at does not mean you are right.”