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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SMOG--A challenge!
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 00:55:33 EDT
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> Every single major leap forward in human understanding of how the
> universe works, flew in the face of the previous "known truths".
> Since the entire power structure has reached its position built on
> those truths, every major leap forward has been opposed with all the
> might that could be brought to bear by those who fear loss of that
> power.

Having just returned from the bookstore, I couldn't resist quoting
from Martin Gardner's introduction to his book, "Science: Good, Bad
and Bogus", Discus/Avon, 1981. p. xiii:

"We all know there have been occasions when top scientists ridiculed ideas
that later proved to be sound.  We all know that great scientists have held
opinions, both in and out of their specialized fields, that turned out to
be hopelessly wrong.  Let us not waste time belaboring the obvious.  Nor
must we forget that for every example of a crank who later became a hero
there were thousands of cranks who forever remained cranks.  We must not
forget that for every outcast theory raised to respectability by a
scientific revolution there were thousands of crazy theories that
permanently bit the dust."
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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