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[William Flynn Wallace]

 the best word to describe that sort of behavior is Doublethink. And that
is not conducive to competence or even sanity."

John K Clark

Then how would you regard Isaac Newton?  He was a spiritualist according to
what I have read (not a lot),and out side of math he was wacky (to use the
proper term).   bill w

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:23 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> > Huh?  This is in response to what?   bill w
>>
>
> On April 21 I said this:
>
> "Speaking of the Thought Police and George Orwell, it would be entirely
> appropriate for academics to have a strong bias against an Astronomy
> professor who believed the universe was created on October 23 4004 BC, or a
> professor of Evolutionary Biology who thought every word of the Noah Ark
> story was literally true because, according to my Newspeak dictionary, the
> best word to describe that sort of behavior is Doublethink. And that is not
> conducive to competence or even sanity."
>
> John K Clark
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