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So will this book start to make sense before or after the evidence for the earth's flatness come in?
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Would you please stop comparing this to the flat earthers? How can you compare these two unless you want to make it appear that they are related in order to turn people off and make his discovery a laughing matter? |
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They look similar because they are disputing an established fact, but that's where their similarities end. Just like you tried to compare him to a crackpot against the crackpot scale, anyone who is outside of the mainstream would be considered a crackpot, but that doesn't necessarily make him one. This comment is so true, and it's important that people search out the diamond in the sewage before they carelessly assume it's all sewage.
In science, pursuing revolutionary advancements can be like searching for diamonds hidden in sewage. It's a shame that the realms of questionable ideas contain "diamonds" of great value. This makes the judging crazy theories far more difficult. If crazy discoveries were always bogus, then we'd have good reason to reject them without investigation. However, since the diamonds exist, we must distrust our first impressions. Sometimes the "obvious" craziness turns out to be a genuine cutting-edge discovery. As with the little child questioning the emperor's clothing, sometimes the entire scientific community is misguided and incompetent. Sometimes only the lone voice of the maverick scientist is telling the truth.
Ridiculed science mavericks vindicated
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The passage you are quoting is talking about people who are doing science. Since Lessans was not doing science, the quote is irrelevant to any discussion of Lessans and his work.