Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

Thu Oct 5 07:15:58 EDT 2017

ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram):
> Some of you are experts in Python, but are only
> half-educated when it comes to physics, C++ or other topics.
> I wish those persons would not broadcast their
> half-knowledge in the form of confident statements,

I don't wish that. That would only establish priesthoods and be an
obstacle to learning.
> and I wish they would talk about those subjects in their
> appropriate newsgroups. (For example, one can ask questions
> about physics in "sci.physics.research".)

That's good advice, but it's not all that dangerous to express off-topic
statements in this newsgroup.
Marko