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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Einstein Effect
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:14:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 10:49:57 +0000, Martin Brown wrote:

> On 07/01/2025 00:48, john larkin wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:17:20 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:36:05 -0800, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-
the-
>>> puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339
>>>>
>>>> Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it.
> 
> You do realise that the Title of the book is actually taken from a paper
> about how total gibberish prose attributed to a scientist is more often
> believed by the general public than the same gibberish prose attributed
> to a mystic guru (aka religious leader proxy).
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01273-8
> 
> That is behind a Nature paywall but the orginalpaper is free access
> here:
> 
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
347290885_The_Einstein_effect_Global_evidence_for_scientific_source_credibility_effects_and_the_influence_of_religiosity
> 
> Religious leaders will just have to get used to the idea that scientists
> and rational thought now hold sway over ignorance and superstition.
> 
>>>> I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a
>>>> very weird guy.
>>>
>>> Not just weird but deeply unpleasant.
>> 
>> Which explains why he never had a girlfriend.
> 
> It is interesting that Oxford university now host the Newton Project
> which is slowly building up a picture of his private and public life in
> as much as it is possible from the very limited historical records
> available.
> 
> https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/his-personal-life
> 
> His physics research is well documented and copies of his published
> works with additional annotation in his own hand are known.
> 
> He was intensely private and somewhat insecure which led to some of his
> spats with Hooke (who was a brilliant experimentalist) and Leibnitz (who
> was a brilliant mathematician). We should all give thanks that Leibnitz
> notation for calculus ultimately won out although fluxions f, f' and f"
> live on.
> 
> Modern diagnosis might be something like manic depressive genius (he did
> have what would today be considered a mental breakdown in 1693 after not
> sleeping for 5 days). He thought his friends were conspiring against
> him.
> 
> OTOH his alchemical interests meant breathing mercury fumes and other
> noxious gasses from time to time probably didn't help either.

ISTR inhaling mercury fumes was a 'cure' for constipation in those days. 
Supposedly. Not terribly effective and with possible side-effects that 
today would be unacceptable to say the least.