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Talk:Theory of relativity (view source)
Revision as of 20:46, September 3, 2018
, 20:46, September 3, 2018What made someone a "household name" is not of scientific interest. The fake news of the 1919 eclipse, and how media ran with it, hardly seems to be of encyclopedic value in scientific entry. The implication that fake news must be true if people
:Relativity is about fundamental physical truths about space and time, not trivialities about eclipses and sunrises. In any case, the phenomenon of sunrise is known, to anyone with a primary-school education, to be nothing but a manifestation of the rotation of the Earth (relativity!)
:Relativity is about fundamental physical truths about space and time, not trivialities about eclipses and sunrises. In any case, the phenomenon of sunrise is known, to anyone with a primary-school education, to be nothing but a manifestation of the rotation of the Earth (relativity!)
:I still do not know whether this person is a willful troll/vandal or is just monumentally ignorant. We certainly have our share of scientific nonsense at Conservapedia, such as [[Gravitation demystified]] and [[Hydroplate Theory]]<ref>[http://www.creationscience.com/]</ref>. We don't need any more. I would recommend that this person go away. If this stuff persists, I will recommend that the administrators review this issue and block this user. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 20:27, 21 August 2017 (EDT)
:I still do not know whether this person is a willful troll/vandal or is just monumentally ignorant. We certainly have our share of scientific nonsense at Conservapedia, such as [[Gravitation demystified]] and [[Hydroplate Theory]]<ref>[http://www.creationscience.com/]</ref>. We don't need any more. I would recommend that this person go away. If this stuff persists, I will recommend that the administrators review this issue and block this user. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 20:27, 21 August 2017 (EDT)
== "Household name" claim ==
What made someone a "household name" is not of scientific interest. The [[fake news]] of the 1919 eclipse, and how media ran with it, hardly seems to be of encyclopedic value in a scientific entry. The implication that [[fake news]] must be true if people believe is not enlightening.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:46, 3 September 2018 (EDT)
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