191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Michael Shermer Show
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Einstein's Relativity Theory
Eather physics doesn't really exist much any more, except on the very far fringes. You don't need it for the science you want and enter tat. There were prominent critics of einstein around 19 20 who formed an anti-semitic league. The most prominent members that grow out of this are johannes stark and philip leonard. Leonard and stark dislike einstein. They're in favor of hitler. And so they try to get this established as the way physics is to be taught in the third rike. It fails because other physicists like heisenburg persuade the noty state that you actually need competent physicists if you want to do the
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