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Comment by voakbasda

5 hours ago

Well then, the founding fathers of the United States were all mentally ill. All of the greatest scientific minds that made breakthroughs in their field are mentally ill.

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chii  5 hours ago

> the greatest scientific minds

if one has a scientific mind, they will accept evidence which may be contrary to their personal views. If you dont, you cannot be said to have a scientific mind, let alone greatest.

> founding fathers of the United States

that may in fact, be the case, but chances are someone today of similar disposition would not be able to do the same.

  • ceejayoz  2 hours ago

    > if one has a scientific mind, they will accept evidence which may be contrary to their personal views. If you dont, you cannot be said to have a scientific mind, let alone greatest.

    Then no one has a scientific mind.

    It's a spectrum, not a binary. Newton was into alchemy. Watson got into race pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease has a nice long list.

lioeters  5 hours ago

Sane people adapt themselves to the world. The insane ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on the mentally abnormal.

(Parody of a famous quote about "unreasonable man".)