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If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If any paper contains these misspellings of Feynman, Einstein or Hawking I would consider them at best sloppy writers.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair they're physicists, not English majors

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but misspelling historically significant names is a pretty bad sign for any flavor of science really.

I'm pretty sure Brits would want to stone me if I called that apple guy Newdon.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It's just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.