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Nikola Tesla Expertise Debate

This debate/discussion occurred on 09 Jan 2023 at 16:06:42...

Nikola Tesla said "The day Science begins to study non physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous the centuries of its existence.

Me I'm reading a biography of Tesla right now. He was brilliant in many ways, and weird (and totally wrong) in others.

Opponent Your interpretation skills are needful of a critical review

Me There have been things he obviously got wrong, and later in life he was somewhat irrational. You disagree?

Supporter YES. Similarly Isaac Newton.

Me Yes, he spent more time on Biblical analysis and alchemy than physics and math. Imagine what he might have discovered is he hadn't wasted that time.

Opponent That probably counts for most wellknown scientists. People like to pretend, that they were always right, whatever they said, but that is very much untrue. They might have been right in some particular field of expertise and then had a go at another adjacent field and turned out to be completely off.

Opponent You could be rite !!

Me Totally agree. There are so many cases where experts in one field made complete idiots of themselves when they got involved in another.

Supporter You mean "you couldn't be more right" ... ? Spelling correctly does not seem to be a problem to you, compared to other comments, so why do it here?

Supporter The problem arises, when people try to let that count, as if they were always wrong or always right. a carpenter can make great furniture and possibly can repair his own car, should he have learned about it in the past, but a carpenter can never replace a car mechanic.

Me Sure, you need to look at the evidence someone presents rather than worrying only about the person's reputation. I mean, expertise does count, but it's not everything.