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Re:Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world by hk__2 on Friday July 29, 2022 @09:52AM (#32276882)
> For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but racist pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are listed.

Maybe those pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are more "well known" than the Nobel laureates? Also, these are not opposites: there are various examples of Nobel laureates that later became pseudoscientists (see Luc Montagnier [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Controversies

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Re:Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world by trompetenaccoun on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:18AM (#32277260)
"Pseudoscientist" in those cases just means they came to disagree with the current dogma. See also people like Kary Mullis or John Ioannidis.

You can't have done real science at one point and then retroactively be declared a non-scientist by people who in many cases couldn't solve a simple equation, let alone conduct the research those people did. Mullis' case is especially ironic, I've heard him called a "conspiracy theorist" by people who use his invention on a daily basis.

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