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Entry: The Protocols of the Elders of Bryan--The Discovery Institute Inherits the Wind Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_protocols_of_the_elders_of_bryan_the_discovery_institute_inherits_the_w#22691 Post contents: The author's essay uses the argument from authority and emotion, rather poor 'humor', to make his case. As to Baez, too bad he's not a folk singer. General Relativity is flawed. As Dr. Jeremy Dunning-Davies writes below: "Many topics are included in this but those of immediate concern here are probably the theories of relativity (both special and general), the theory of the ‘big bang’, the theory of black holes, etc. As Stephen Crothers has recently pointed out, this final topic should really be a non-starter, based as it is on an incorrect statement of Schwartzschild’s solution of the Einstein field equations. However, again as Stephen has pointed out, even the incorrectly quoted ‘solution’ is included in, and protected by, conventional wisdom. One further surprising aspect of much of conventional wisdom is that the originators of much of this body of knowledge would have welcomed discussion and even criticism, provided that criticism was constructive. In this day and age, however, people who disagree with conventional wisdom do not face discussion and constructive criticism; rather they are either quietly ignored or destroyed. The first of these is possibly the more destructive action occurring in modern science because if something is quietly ignored, it gains no publicity and so remains unknown, except to the favoured few." http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderblogs/guest2.htm Sent at: 2008 09 07