John Hagelin

[Anonymous No.10186982]

>Harvard Ph.D. student
>widely published on supersymmetry, grand unified theories, and string theory
>left Harvard to join Maharishi International University
>believes that transcendental meditation enables levitation
>unironically ran for president
>believes the US can fight terrorism using "Invincible Defense Technology", yes, literally, dudes sitting/levitating in a room meditating are invincible to terrorism

what the fuck guys. this is for real? how did they let him defend his thesis? if i were in the room i would have been like "hey, please explain levitation" and then laugh my ass off when he becomes the 1st Harvard Ph.D. candidate to outright fail his defense

[Anonymous No.10187166]

>>10186982
/sci/ why have you abandoned me?

i thought this would be a fun thread. harvard physicist is a wacko newager -- isn't that fun? no, apparently not, you guys hate my threads now. not just this one, like my last 3. i think i need to take the blackpill :-{

[Anonymous No.10187178]

>>10186982
Probably because nothing in his work he did actually interacts with his crank beliefs, unlike what the man personally thinks.

[Anonymous No.10187197]

Why would they turn down the first Harvard student to levitate during his defense?

[Anonymous No.10187218]

>>10187197
oh shit yeah i saw that video, they deleted it from youtube tho

[Anonymous No.10187441]

>Graduate high school at 15
>Top of his class with a 4.0 GPA
>Did research all throughout undergrad
>Accepted into numerous med schools
>Thinks that injecting stem cells into his blood stream is going to do anything

very high IQ people can think some very stupid shit.

[Anonymous No.10187465]

Big universities sometimes enable weird beliefs. Like for some reason Princeton has an ongoing project where they claim p-hacking random number generators is meaningful. Not as a hoax to demonstrate how easy it is to mislead with statistics, it's a serious thing.

>>10186982
>dudes sitting/levitating in a room meditating are invincible to terrorism
It's true though, if they levitate high enough and move fast enough how will the terrorists get to them?

[Anonymous No.10187470]

>The Invincible Defense Technology is a proven, practical approach to world peace and national invincibility—an approach validated by more than 50 replications and 23 studies published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Wow, what an asshole, he brought world peace to 50 other worlds, but won't use it on Earth.

[Anonymous No.10187473]

>>10187441
>>Thinks that injecting stem cells into his blood stream is going to do anything
www.reddit.com
Cosmetic applications of stem cells is nothing new and is entirely understandable if you have a high enough IQ to understand why.
>T-there's no evidence for that!
He's smart enough to realize how doing that could benefit. Of course there isn't going to be a study conducted on healthy people using stem cells for individual enhancement. It's controversial enough using them to treat disease, let alone just taking them to enhance the human condition.
If I had access to stem cells, I would take them.

[Anonymous No.10187495]

>>10186982
well it's just that string theory and the GUT's are pseudoscience :S

[Anonymous No.10187524]

>>10187441
Stem cells are low risk, with potentially huge upside. There's little reason not to take them assuming money isn't an issue.

[Anonymous No.10187538]

>>10187524
>low risk, with potentially huge upside.
So is accepting Christ as Lord and saviour. Just because there might be an upside just doesn't make it the best decision to take.

[Anonymous No.10187545]

>>10186982
religion poisons everything

[Anonymous No.10187551]

>>10187538
bs, it's a 100% sure recipe to the glory that is middle east

[Anonymous No.10187571]

>>10187538
>[error, does not compute, <<panic>> execute completely irrelevant straw man]

[Anonymous No.10187603]

>>10186982
>smart people can't become crazy

"Later in his life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, she was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare her husband's food. In her absence, he refused to eat, eventually starving to death.[28]"

[Anonymous No.10187623]

>>10186982
Real question: have you ever worked in the academic sciences before? Science is literally chock-full of autists with a narrow range of exceptional intelligence who are just completely retarded on almost every other front.

Case in point: Kary Mullis invented PCR and won the Nobel Prize, but he also denies adamantly that HIV causes AIDS and is a devout believer in astrology.

[Anonymous No.10187643]

>>10187603
>tfw it turns out his wife was poisoning him the whole time