Harristotelian Logic

So you can prove something mathematically, cover all the dots, handle all the objections and then have people just ignore you, or worse, say you didn't do what you did, and you wait, waiting for validation from SOMEWHERE and it doesn't come.

So what might you do then?

Well, you may GET REALLY ANGRY and it's not hard to post some angry stuff, and next thing you know, guess what?

You're labeled a crackpot or a crank.

It's a perfect system in a way, as while people trust mathematicians to tell them the truth as a group, they will just dismiss small groups of people or one person telling them that mathematicians routinely lie—for their careers.

I mean, most people aren't stupid, they know that lying for one's career can be a common thing, but they don't connect with large scale lying by people they are also told are brilliant, even when you can prove that lying is the best way for those people to protect themselves from truth, versus biting the bullet and just handling the consequences of what is mathematically true.

Before you learn that though, if you make that discovery that mathematicians routinely lie, you can get angry, and express that anger, and then they happily label you a crank or a crackpot, and guess what?

They keep doing what they are doing.

The world needs to look at the reality and comprehend that yes, academics do lie.

How do you know with any academic speciality whether or not you are getting lies fed to you by some person or persons trying to help or maintain their career?

Academics is a lot about politics.

People know politicians lie, and it's time for them to understand that academics can lie as well, and they can lie as a group.

So here it is directly for people who do not get it:

ACADEMICS CAN LIE AS A GROUP TO HELP OR MAINTAIN THEIR CAREERS.

And that can anger people who find out, and their anger can be used against them by people who know what it takes to keep the lies going.

[A reply to someone who wanted to know when did James “prove something mathematically, cover all the dots” and so on.]

And that's part of the politics of all of this, no matter what, people like you come in and act like there are no proofs, despite the reality, and people trust you.

But the point I'm making is, people must check academics and not just trust that if a lot of professors claim something is true that it is.

Reality is a LOT of people in a discipline—like mathematics—can decide to hold on to something that is just not true, and they know that people trust them.

Problem is, someone like me comes along, and people like you do your thing, and I keep at it. You sit back, satisfied that you did your jobs.

Then I talk some more, and you do your thing, and nothing happens.

You sit back, satisfied.

Then I talk some more and people listen, and you go into complete freaking shock as your world is totally destroyed because you believed that because you never saw anything happening, nothing ever would happen.

And history repeats.