torsdag 20 december 2018 kl. 18:06:21 UTC+1 skrev JTEM:

akes...@gmail.com wrote:

Max Planck said "Knowledge advances one funeral at a time"

Wonderful quote, and not to take anything away from
you but it's "Science."

meaning that, given the tendency to hierarchy and
obedience thereof for career advancement, most people
are unwilling to risk the loss of entitlement inherent
in challenging authority.

This was the lesson of Piltdown Man. Which is a shame,
because nobody seems to have learned it. The religious
nutters think the lesson was that science bites and we
should all listen to the authority of the Priest/Minister,
while the status quo think it's an example of science
working well -- because Piltdown man was eventually
rejected. But the real lesson was that authority sucks.
Piltdown man resulted from someone with a title, someone
with status/authority saying something, and many people
accepting that something on the basis of his authority
and NOT science.

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I seem to be one of the few to actually have read uwnderlich' book - actually twice, 20 years apart. His theory is based on so much more than mere gypsum/alabaster qualities. I really would like to see how archeologs have refuted his points about
cisterns and "oil vats" being very similar in size and form to known burial containers, and the very strange ways to confine commodity containers into "rooms" that makes it very difficult to get access to the storage units for "oils" and "grains". I
recommend everyone to read the book, it's very engaging, and whatever conclusion you will get, its a kind of puzzle mystery that is fascinating.

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