Re: [Phys-l] Prof. Hal Lewis resigns from APS

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Ah oh!

I usta make fun of truth by democracy (majority rule)  in my classes by having the students vote on the "correct" interpretation of a demo. or whatever.   Fortunately, often the majority was convincingly wrong, so I could make my point.

Perhaps John meant majority of "experts", but then how does one define that?

bc  thinks "clickers" is a bit different.

p.s.  there's an answer your question site (Yahoo answers) wherein the various answers are voted on!!!   I too ofter open it when I'm googling and AFAICR it's been UNSATISFACTORY.




On 2010, Oct 11, , at 15:17, John Clement wrote:

>  Scientific "truth" is what the majority says it is, based on the
> evidence that they see as relevant.