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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 11:04amSanction this postReply
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I think John Baez originated these:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html


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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 1:17pmSanction this postReply
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Bah! My plagiarism has been foiled! I would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for that meddling Luke.

Sarah

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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 1:33pmSanction this postReply
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I read more about that guy, and while this area is funny he supports all kinds of collectivist ideas, including "Post-autistic economics" which I tried to read about but could not find anything coherent to explain what they believed.  It sounds like a bunch of complete crap.

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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 2:42pmSanction this postReply
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Just for the record, I know next to nothing about John Baez.  I only learned of him because I circulated the link to Sarah's joke on a science list I run.  Some members brought the Baez link to my attention.  Scientists often tend to have ideas counter to Objectivism as the recent discussion on Richard Dawkins revealed.  So I feel no surprise that Baez might fall into that camp.

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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 2:56pmSanction this postReply
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Outside of physics, I wouldn't pay much attention to him.  He is the cousin of Joan Baez.  Joan Baez's father is (was?) a physicist who, amongst other things, wrote an introductory physics textbook. 

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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 3:50pmSanction this postReply
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New flavor: Diet Plagiarized

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Friday, January 20, 2006 - 4:10pmSanction this postReply
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http://arxiv.org/find/grp_q-bio,grp_cs,grp_physics,grp_math,grp_nlin/1/all:+baez/0/1/0/all/0/1
He also lurks on the usenet physics groups, IIRC.

Scientists often tend to have ideas counter to Objectivism as the recent discussion on Richard Dawkins revealed. So I feel no surprise that Baez might fall into that camp.


Being academics too, they get government/collectivist (our) money. And a lot of people around them reinforce (reward/punish) their beliefs.

He is the cousin of Joan Baez.


Joan Baez sang her famous "One Tin Soldier" song at my elementary school, circa 1972, IIRC. She asked our class for a request, but disappointed us by declining to sing "Smoking in the Boys Room".

Scott

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