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<blockquote data-quote="Keroscene" data-source="post: 38973" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>Re: JREF - Million Dollar Challenge</strong></p><p></p><p>Does Tesla really deserve equal recognition with Edison in the history books though? He may have invented a few great things, but Edison invented far more that was both useful and not useful and that's why he gets the recognition. It isn't only because of his success at being a shrewd businessman, he was also a great inventor and quite arguably a better one that Tesla. We can't fill history books with things Tesla possibly could have invented but no body knows for sure if he did. It's not as if Edison doesn't deserve more recognition, how much does he really get in your basic classroom history books now? Maybe a page or two? Tesla isn't really covered in the basic classroom history books because there's no point in filling pages with the "almost made it" guys. There's a ton of inventors who had a couple few great inventions but the ones who consistently invent useful things are the ones who make it into the history books. It's because of that Edison made it and not because there's any kind of conspiracy to intentionally hide Tesla's work, IMO. </p><p></p><p>For every 1 great inventor out there, there are a 1000 crackpots. In the educational community there is always disagreement. I also think some disagreed with Einstein and Tesla and still do, but I doubt there's anyone in the scientifc community who didn't take either of their theories or inventions seriously. On the flip side I doubt there's one person in this world who shares the exact same viewpoint on every different scientific topic with another person in the same field. THere will always be disagreement on theories until it can be tried and proven.</p><p></p><p>I also believe that it's quite possible paranormal stuff exists, but I think the JREF gets far more crackpots trying to just get the million bucks than they do anyone who truly has paranormal abilities. Just because he exposes alot of crackpots for what they truly are doesn't lead me to believe the test is intentionally rigged. It's ridiculous and almost a state of denial to not acknowledge how many snake oil salesman and crackpots there truly are. I don't think the JREF test is rigged by default because it exposes them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keroscene, post: 38973, member: 508"] [b]Re: JREF - Million Dollar Challenge[/b] Does Tesla really deserve equal recognition with Edison in the history books though? He may have invented a few great things, but Edison invented far more that was both useful and not useful and that's why he gets the recognition. It isn't only because of his success at being a shrewd businessman, he was also a great inventor and quite arguably a better one that Tesla. We can't fill history books with things Tesla possibly could have invented but no body knows for sure if he did. It's not as if Edison doesn't deserve more recognition, how much does he really get in your basic classroom history books now? Maybe a page or two? Tesla isn't really covered in the basic classroom history books because there's no point in filling pages with the "almost made it" guys. There's a ton of inventors who had a couple few great inventions but the ones who consistently invent useful things are the ones who make it into the history books. It's because of that Edison made it and not because there's any kind of conspiracy to intentionally hide Tesla's work, IMO. For every 1 great inventor out there, there are a 1000 crackpots. In the educational community there is always disagreement. I also think some disagreed with Einstein and Tesla and still do, but I doubt there's anyone in the scientifc community who didn't take either of their theories or inventions seriously. On the flip side I doubt there's one person in this world who shares the exact same viewpoint on every different scientific topic with another person in the same field. THere will always be disagreement on theories until it can be tried and proven. I also believe that it's quite possible paranormal stuff exists, but I think the JREF gets far more crackpots trying to just get the million bucks than they do anyone who truly has paranormal abilities. Just because he exposes alot of crackpots for what they truly are doesn't lead me to believe the test is intentionally rigged. It's ridiculous and almost a state of denial to not acknowledge how many snake oil salesman and crackpots there truly are. I don't think the JREF test is rigged by default because it exposes them. [/QUOTE]
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