/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11212887
>What the fuck is wrong with Serge Lang?
He was a crank.

AIDS is a meme.

Was Lang right or wrong that there was an absence of evidence (note: this is not evidence of absence) showing HIV causes AIDS?

Was Lang right or wrong that there was an absence of evidence (note: this is not evidence of absence) showing HIV causes AIDS?

What are some strange side interests of mathematicians?

Serge Lang didn't believe in HIV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lang#Activism
>Lang's most controversial political stance was as an AIDS denialist; he maintained that the prevailing scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS has not been backed up by reliable scientific research, yet for political and commercial reasons further research questioning the current point of view is suppressed

Michael Spivak invented some gender-neutral pronouns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

Anatoly Fomenko believes in an alternate history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko#Historical_revisionism
>He has created his own revision called New Chronology, based on statistical correlations, dating of zodiacs, and by examining the mathematics and astronomy involved in chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates they are supposed to have occurred on. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of Greece, Rome, and Egypt) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century Jesuits

>He also claims that Jesus lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified on Joshua's Hill; that the Trojan War and the Crusades were the same historical event; and that Genghis Khan and the Mongols were actually Russians, that the lands west of the 13 colonies that now constitute the American West and Middle West were a far eastern part of "Siberian-American Empire" prior to its disintegration in 1775, and many other theories, that contradict the conventional historiography to say the least. As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes more objective dating techniques such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating (see here for an examination of the latter criticism)

>>9702290
he IS a meme

>>9699774
His "hard evidence" is pure pseudoscience pushed by """"scientists"""" whose entire lifetime of work needs intelligence to be fixed in order to stay relevant.
But there are recent studies which indicate the possibility of 20-point IQ swings with the proper training (the "Relational frame method")
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608016300231
This on top of the Flynn effect, another embarrassment to the IQ concept. And of course the physically-observable, reproducible, study-trigger grey matter increases already mentioned ITT.
Obviously, when confronted with facts and logic, he will cop out and tell you the evidence is out there but that it's your responsibility to find it, much like a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon.

ITT: Hacks