Re: [Phys-l] hypothesis testing +- real science

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I'll add a little left politics here.

And it took about fifty years for me to learn an important reason  
(importance, I suppose, debatable.) for the revolutionary war was so  
the settlers could take more land, etc. from the Natives.  England  
had drawn a line the settlers were not to cross**.  The much vaunted  
freedom was the freedom to expropriate Native land and resources.   
(What else is new?)


** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Proclamation_of_1763


bc agrees w/ John;  much U.S. history is very inconvenient.

p.s. George was "actually" a rather bad general, at least initially  
-- "we" won the war because there were more French than Settlers at  
Yorktown.  He was, as John wrote, politically astute.  More  
recently,  the Soviets had, essentially, won the war before D-Day.


On 2009, May 14, , at 14:21, John Clement wrote:

> I have tried to tell teachers, and they argue with me.  They never  
> engaged
> in real research, and I have, but that doesn't stop them.  Also many
> teachers do not like to find out that when books are in error.   
> They are
> mortally afraid that those errors will be tested as facts on the state
> exams.  One of the funnier outrageous errors is making reference to  
> the
> "dark side of the Moon that never faces the Sun" in a Glencoe text.
>
> This is part and parcel of what might be termed "school science"  
> which has
> very little relationship with science as practiced.  School history  
> and
> literature has always been edited to remove any inconvenient  
> truths.  At one
> time there was a cult of George and Martha Washington and the  
> Gilbert Stuart
> reproduction was an icon hung in every history classroom.  They were
> glorified as the good parents of our country.  Of course they never  
> told the
> students that the marriage was made for social reasons, and that  
> George was
> the father of the nation in more ways than one.  But in the current  
> era,
> sexuality is glorified a bit out of proportion.  George was a good  
> leader
> and his appetites had no bearing on his abilities.