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2010-05-02 13:57:03 THis is a great page, guys...
We want more like it! —NormanNitram
2010-05-04 03:50:11 I think we could also have pages for single, heroic, big time, guardians of reason.
James Randi
Carl Sagan
Ricky Dawkins
y'know? —PerigGouanvic
Yes, we should add thumbnail sketches to this page too, tho first maybe. Dawkins has a sort of page already... comes in under BSF, does he belong here? NN
I know, Dawkins is kind of covered, but the great think here is that ad hominem attacks are not only tolerated, but encouraged, in PI, so I would focus on him in a separate page or in the BSF — but not here, because he's less typical of the American converts, more of the typical condescending British type — and he's a Brit, too.
Randi is one-of-a-kind — and he's Canadian!
Sagan, as I see him, is a founder, like
Dawkins, so I'd really feature them separately from the others (and with the others as well, when necessary) — pg
2010-05-08 17:11:49 Maybe we need a bit more on these dudes, I'll have a look into it too.
DJ Grothe
Martin Gardner
And of course there's lots more hilarious individuals out there to add! But if PA wants, I guess we can call this page 'batch one' and finalise it soon. —NormanNitram
I'll put his quote (which is in the table, top of page) in his section as well. Quite eloquent. —PG
Gardner
Here's an interview which might be fun to use: ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/mind_at_play_an_interview_with_martin_gardner/
—pg
"I love monotony. Nothing pleases me more than to be alone in a room, reading a book or hitting typewriter keys. I consider myself lucky in being able to earn a living by doing what I like best."
I have a lengthy critical review of this book ("Postmodern nonsense has even invaded mathematics, as witnessed by Reuben Hersh’s just-published book What Is Mathematics, Really?" in the Los Angeles Times Book Review (October 12, 1997), defending the opinion of almost all mathematicians today or in the past that mathematics has a curious kind of reality independent of human minds. The universe is made of particles and fields about which nothing can be said except to describe their mathematical structures. In a sense, the entire universe is made of mathematics. If the particles and fields are not made of mathematical structure, then please tell me what you think they are made of!
A mystic, this man!
More seriously, he's saying stg along the lines of Feyerabend, except that PF is seen as an anti-realist. —pg
