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Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the einstein-dismisses-india-scientists dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Hindu mythology and religion-based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.

But experts said remarks at this year's summit were especially ludicrous.

[...] The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.

G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.

Another scientist from a university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu told conference attendees that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed "Narendra Modi Waves" [Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India].

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 14 2019, @06:45AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday January 14 2019, @06:45AM (#786322) Journal

    My dear and fluffy khallow, it is you that prevents rational discourse! Let's for examples's sake. consider the difference between the cost of production, and the price of widgets. Do you not realize that in a normally competitive economy, the fixed cost would be the same for all enterprises, so the only way they could provide a margin of "profit" would be by not paying their workers the full value of their labor? Or do we just hold their kids in captivity, until they agree to our wage demands? You are an intellectual scab, khallow. I would love to have an adult talk with you, but that would have to be predicated upon you actually becoming an adult, and not a Vienna Circle Austrian Economics White Supremacist Ideological syncophant. Suck it up, khallow, or the rest of SoylentNews will continue our embargo of your bullshit.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 14 2019, @01:18PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 14 2019, @01:18PM (#786426) Journal

    Let's for examples's sake. consider the difference between the cost of production, and the price of widgets. Do you not realize that in a normally competitive economy, the fixed cost would be the same for all enterprises, so the only way they could provide a margin of "profit" would be by not paying their workers the full value of their labor? Or do we just hold their kids in captivity, until they agree to our wage demands? You are an intellectual scab, khallow. I would love to have an adult talk with you, but that would have to be predicated upon you actually becoming an adult, and not a Vienna Circle Austrian Economics White Supremacist Ideological syncophant. Suck it up, khallow, or the rest of SoylentNews will continue our embargo of your bullshit.

    I await this rational discourse. It sounds quite interesting. But the above is not an example of it.