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  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics - Physics - Wikipedia

    What controversy?

    March 6, 2010 - By ckr

    Recently, someone who had invited me for a talk, wanted a bio, and sent in a short bio, evidently taken from the Wikipedia, which says “Much of Raju’s beliefs have been highly controversial, especially his claims that the philosophies that underlie subjects like time and mathematics are rooted in the…

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  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics - Physics - Wikipedia

    Wikipedia: Encyclopedia of Ignorance-2. Newton

    February 10, 2009 - By ckr

    In some of the preceding posts I pointed out that in matters related to history and biography, the Wikipedia often serves as an instrument for propagating ill-informed prejudices of all sorts because of its systematic reliance on secondary sources, and because its contributors are often ill-informed or prejudiced. This series…

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  • Physics - Science and Society - Wikipedia

    Wikipedia: Encylopedia of Ignorance-1. Just accusations?

    February 3, 2009 - By ckr

    The Wikipedist says: Raju has repeatedly accused Einstein and Newton of plagiarism. The citation is a report by the Hindu.  Let us take just the case of Einstein. First, what I did was a lot more substantial. I pointed out a mistake made by Einstein, and overlooked by most researchers…

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  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics - Physics - Science and Society - Wikipedia

    Wikipedia: Encyclopedia of Ignorance

    February 3, 2009 - By ckr

    An encyclopedia is as good or as bad as its authors, and reflects their level of knowledge, and their biases. In theory it is all very well to say that things can be corrected, but in practice it may be as difficult as correcting astrologers, because confusion abounds, together with all…

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