And miss people’s sunny dispositions? Perish the thought.
I wasn’t calling you a nitwit. I was criticizing asking the media not to talk about something because some nitwits won’t read past the headline. Pandering to the lowest common denominator is not good journalism.
I’m very happy for you. There are several physicists among the commenters here. Why, you never know when you just might be talking with one. How is that pertinent to the apparent evolution of a fellow scientist’s social views?
I’ll check it out.
That seems very much like your assumptions of how the masses will interpret it and, since in this case at least the article and blog post here about it both explicitly refute that reading, also an assumption about the attention of the masses.
So what would make you happy? The refutation right up top in the headline? That seems more of a criticism of your assumptions about readers than of the actual article. Which in and of itself I might agree with, but criticizing the journalists and bloggers for not catering to nitwits who don’t RTFA is misplaced. Not writing about it because people are too stupid to comprehend what they read?
Or are you actually suggesting that the article mythologizes Einstein? Because that’s literally the opposite reading of most people in this thread.
