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Comments by allanplaskett


1. Happy Newton Day!

Comment #98978 by allanplaskett on December 15, 2007 at 5:00 am

Newton was a great scientist, but also an obsessional alchemist, misogynist and anti-socialite. He was a great mind, but a great man? I think not. He has never rid himself of the suspiscion of having plagiarised Leibnitz in the invention of the calculus. As Master of the Mint he caused the public execution of petty counterfeiters.

2. For the glory of God

Comment #88833 by allanplaskett on November 19, 2007 at 3:38 am

The Dawkins viewpoint that there is a continuous spectrum from believing innocently and pehaps simplisticly in God and Jesus to being able to murder people in God's name is most unconvincing. Surely there's a dichotomy, and forensic psychiatry just can't say how it comes about. Hardly surprising, since psychiatry is a pretty comprehensively useless branch of medicine: it has no convincing theories of how mental disorders of any kind arise, and no effective therapies.