JSH wrote:
>
> If you ask people how we know that mathematicians do not
> lie about mathematics, usually you get the answer that
> other mathematicians would tell you if they did!!! But
> what if MOST mathematicians lie about research?
>
> Well then people can go to the great accomplishments of
> mathematics, right?
Wrong. People can consider that MOST mathematicians does not
a conspiracy make. You have to have ALL of them.
While you're at it, reflect on the fact that your imagined
conspiracy is open enrollment. ANYONE IN THE WORLD could
potentially learn enough to discover this web of lies that
you have fantasized. YOU could have learned enough in the
last, what, /ten years?/ Of course, you never tried to,
did you?
Instead of that, you piss away your life fantasizing
about a world-wide conspiracy involving millions of
people and centuries of time, that does nothing
to protect its secrets, no, that begs people to come
and enroll in its graduate schools, buy its magazines,
and yet every one of these millions of self-selected
'enrollees' has chosen faithfulness to your Vast
Mathematical Conspiracy over the fame (or at least
the notoriety) that letting such a cat out of the bag
would surely bring.
Now, you could show how strongly you believe in
your fantasy about the Vast Mathematical Conspiracy
by actually doing something besides whining,
something like learning about the mathematics
that you've been pretending to use and letting
the cat out yourself. Or, you could continue to
piss your life away. Would you like to know which
I think you'll do?
Jim Burns
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