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Originally Posted by Tripod1404
... Science is based on facts, not beliefs. Would anyone disagree with gravity if there is a great spokesman against gravity and would that make gravity unreal. ...
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Sure, if someone with a cult following makes it a politically divisive issue and tell his his fanatical followers that it's a made-up scheme by their opponents or people they deem inferior...
One actual example of exactly that would be the "Arian Physics" (or "Deutsche Physik") of the Nazis that called among other things Einstein's general relativity a "Jewish hoax" despite the fact that it had already been proven that gravity is acceleration and that a strong enough gravity well can bend light.
And with the right assembly of blind followers you can repeat equally or even more ridiculous things any day of the week...
Just take carbon dating of fossils - you will easily find plenty of people who are dead certain that that is a hoax...
If it fits their world view people are willing to believe everything and wilfully ignore the facts - until they finally hit them in the face.
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