MLK, Jr./Einstein/Obama and Hitler

 

 

This should probably be several separate posts, but here it is anyway:

 

A while back, I wrote a post about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his issues with plagiarism and serial adultery, which you can review HERE. Now, along comes another scoundrel who is considered one of the greatest scientific minds in all of history. Before I post the article about Albert Einstein and his plagiarism, I want to discuss a couple of other things.

 

Dimocrats generally consider themselves to be much smarter than republicans, who are largely considered to be buffoons by the left. During the presidential campaign comaprisons were made equating Obama with Hitler.  While most people tend to think of Hitler and the Nazis as a conservative and oppressive regime, Hitler was, in fact, a liberal socialist; ergo the National Socialist German Worker's Party.

 

Even among the Fuhrer's most ardent supporters, Hitler was not considered the sharpest crayon in the box.  Thus far, Obama has spent the last two years blaming Bush 43 for his economic woes.

 

When Hitler came to power the German unemployment rate was pushing 30% and inflation was still high.  Nonetheless, the dullard Hitler managed to turn the Nazi economy around within two years, while the genius Obama just spends his time golfing, partying or sittitng around with his thumb up his ass blaming Bush for everything.

 

So, how did Hitler do it?  Unlike Obama, who appoints fiscal morons to oversee the economic recovery,  Hitler  did at least have the G-2 to appoint capable economic advisers. One of whom was a fellow by the name of Hjalmar Schacht.  Hjalmar broke up the trade unions and imposed certain wage controls.

 

The government then expanded the money supply through the use of EFFECTIVE and necessary public works programs while limiting inflation. The Nazis limited imports and mandated domestic manufacturing and production of certain goods.  These measures greatly reduced unemployment.  Banks were denationalized and decentralized.

 

As we see, Obama is no Hitler.  Now about Einstein.....

 

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by Ian Mosley

Albert Einstein is today revered as “the Father of Modern Science”. His wrinkled face and wild hair has become a symbol for scientific genius and “his” famous E = mc^2 equation is repeatedly used as the symbol for something scientific and intellectual. And yet there has for years been mounting evidence that this “Father of Modern Science” was nothing but a con man, lying about his ideas and achievements, and stealing the work and the research of others.

The most glaring evidence against Einstein concerns “his” most famous equation. One website notes “The equation E=mc^2, which has been forever linked to Einstein & his Theory of Relativity was not originally published by Einstein. According to Umberto Bartocci, a professor at the University of Perugia and a historian of mathematics, this famous equation was first published by Olinto De Pretto …two years prior to Einstein’s publishing of the equation. In 1903 De Pretto published his equation in the scientific magazine Atte and in 1904 it was republished by the Royal Science Institute of Veneto. Einstein’s research was not published until 1905… Einstein was well versed in Italian and even lived in Northern Italy for a brief time.”

It is unheard of to pass over the original inventor of an equation and to give credit to someone, who claims to have derived it AFTER the equation and its derivation have been published. The equation “E=mc^2″ should be called the “De Pretto Equation” not the “Einstein Equation.”

This raises the question: “What sort of man was Einstein?” Is there evidence that he may have been prone to unethical behavior? One website reports “Einstein… was still far from the ideal husband. A year before they married, Maric gave birth to a daughter, Lieserl, while Einstein was away. The child’s fate is unknown – she is presumed to have been given up for adoption, perhaps under pressure from Einstein, who is thought to have never seen his first born. After the marriage, Mileva bore two sons but the family was not to stay together. Einstein began an affair with his cousin Elsa Lowenthal while on a trip to Berlin in 1912, leaving Mileva and his family two years later. Einstein and Mileva finally divorced in 1919, but not until after Einstein sent his wife a list of ‘conditions’ under which he was willing to remain married. The list included such autocratic demands as ‘You are neither to expect intimacy nor to reproach me in any way’. After the divorce, he saw little of his sons. The elder, Hans Albert, later reflected ‘Probably the only project he ever gave up on was me.’ The younger, Eduard, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in an asylum. Einstein married Elsa soon after the divorce, but a few years later began an affair with Betty Neumann, the niece of a friend… Accusations of plagiarism aren’t limited to Mileva – it’s also been claimed that Einstein stole the work of a host of other physicists. One question which may remain moot is quite how much Einstein drew from the work of Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare in formulating the theory of special relativity. Elements of Einstein’s 1905 paper paralleled parts of a 1904 paper by Lorentz and a contemporary paper by Poincare. Although Einstein read earlier papers by the two, he claimed not to have seen these later works before writing the 1905 paper. One apparently damning fact is that the 1905 paper on special relativity had no references, suggesting that Einstein was consciously hiding his tracks.”

One source notes “David Hilbert submitted an article containing the correct field equations for general relativity five days before Einstein.” Another source notes “Einstein presented his paper on November 25, 1915 in Berlin and Hilbert had presented his paper on November 20 in Göttingen. On November 18, Hilbert received a letter from Einstein thanking him for sending him a draft of the treatise Hilbert was to deliver on the 20th. So, in fact, Hilbert had sent a copy of his work at least two weeks in advance to Einstein before either of the two men delivered their lectures, but Einstein did not send Hilbert an advance copy of his.” Apparently Hilbert’s work was soon to become “Einstein’s work.”

The historic record is readily available and the truth is known to many scientists and historians, even if they are afraid to say anything. The idea that light had a finite speed was proven by Michelson and Morley decades before Einstein. Hendrik Lorentz determined the equations showing relativistic time and length contractions which become significant as the speed of light is approached. These gentlemen along with David Hilbert and Olinto De Pretto have been airbrushed out of the picture so that Einstein could be given the credit for what they had done.

Einstein appeared to latch onto his first wife, a much more talented student three years his senior, to compensate for his own limited abilities. Another website notes: “…in 1927, H. Thirring wrote, ‘H. Poincare had already completely solved the problem of time several years before the appearance of Einstein’s first work (1905). . . .’ Sir Edmund Whittaker in his detailed survey, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, Volume II, (1953), included a chapter entitled ‘The Relativity Theory of Poincare and Lorentz’. Whittaker thoroughly documented the development of the theory, documenting the authentic history, and demonstrated through reference to primary sources that Einstein held no priority for the vast majority of the theory. Einstein offered no counter-argument to Whittaker’s famous book. . .”

Einstein was a minor contributor at best and in any case an intellectual thief and pretentious braggart. Einstein was still alive when Whitaker’s book was published and he said NOTHING about it. No libel suit, no refutation, no public comment at all.

Einstein was the first great fraudster and idea-thief in modern science. His theft of Olinto De Pretto’s equation E = mc^2 gave him considerable scientific credibility which he built a career on. De Pretto was not a career physicist and spent his life as an industrialist, passing away in 1921. De Pretto had published his equation twice before Einstein and was no doubt amazed that someone could claim credit for his work. Einstein used and eventually discarded his first wife, Mileva, who was a much more brilliant student than Einstein and is suspected of writing much of Einstein’s early work. (She may have been reluctant to expose Einstein since he was still the father of her children.) David Hilbert’s work on the equations for Special Relativity was submitted for publication before Einstein and was sent to Einstein as correspondence. Einstein claimed credit for the equations which Hilbert derived. (David Hilbert passed away in 1943.)

Some university professors have stolen work from their graduate students and it would be interesting to see if any of Einstein’s students complained of such thievery. A plagiarist seldom stops plagiarizing especially when he keeps getting away with it. Complaints against Einstein however seem to disappear down the Orwellian memory hole. Einstein is clearly a sacred cow to many. A few have even used the word “heresy” to describe serious well-documented criticism and charges of plagiarism against Einstein. The truth eventually wins out and Einstein will someday be best known as a great fraud instead of a great physicist.

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Well, one is never too old to learn new things.

 

 

 

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. we hardly knew ye.

Martin Luther King, Jr was shot to death on April 4th, 1968 while standing on the balcony of his hotel room. (Lorraine Motel, Room 306). James Earl Ray was subsequently arrested and convicted of King's murder despite the fact that the rifle recovered by the police was subjected to two different ballistics tests and both determined that the rifle recovered was not the rifle used in the assassination. Ray also recanted his confession and it has now been generally accepted that someone else actually killed King.

Now, King's contribution to the civil rights movement should be well known. He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was involved with the Montgomery Bus boycott, the Birmingham campaign to promote civil rights, participated in numerous marches (Selma, etc), gave several significant speeches, (the most notable was his 1963 "I have a Dream" speech) and in 1964 received the Nobel Prize for his efforts at ending racial discrimination.

A not too shabby list of accomplishments. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that without the efforts and legacy of MLK, Jr. that Obama would not have been elected.

The personal side of Martin Luther King, Jr. is worth looking at as well. There are two main negatives in his personal life; his plagiarism and his adultery.

I'm sure most of the over 40 crowd was aware that J. Edgar Hoover and his Gestapo were keeping a close eye on MLK, Jr.. I'm also sure most older people remember that the FBI recorded MLK, Jr. having a boink session with two white women while he was married. Now, adultery is a really, really bad sin, but men being men, I kind of understand (but can't condone) his desire for a little variety and can also understand that if all the ice cream you get is chocolate, you might want to try some vanilla. Unfortunately, it turns out that King was a serial adulterer.

From a January, 2009 article on King by Benjamin Ryan: "King lived a double life. During the day, he would speak to large crowds, quoting Scripture and invoking God’s will, and at night he frequently had sex with women from the audience. “King’s habits of sexual adventure had been well established by the time he was married,” says Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University, a King admirer. He notes that King often “told lewd jokes,” “shared women with friends,” and was “sexually reckless.” According to King biographer Taylor Branch, during a long party on the night of January 6 and 7, 1964, an FBI bugging device recorded King’s “distinctive voice ring out above others with pulsating abandon, saying, “˜I’m f***ing for God!’”

Sex with single and married women continued after King married, and on the night before his death, King had two adulterous trysts. His first rendezvous was at a woman’s house, the second in a hotel room. The source for this was his best friend and second-in-command, Ralph Abernathy, who noted that the second woman was “a member of the Kentucky legislature,” now known to be Georgia Davis Powers.

Abernathy went on to say that a third woman was also looking for King that same night, but found his bed empty. She knew his habits and was angry when they met later that morning. In response, writes Abernathy, King “lost his temper” and “knocked her across the bed… . She leapt up to fight back, and for a moment they were engaged in a full-blown fight, with [King] clearly winning.” A few hours later, King ate lunch with Abernathy and discussed the importance of nonviolence for their movement."
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Not too cool a thing for a minister to be doing. Many people will excuse this behavior and justify it in light of all the good he did. I think this is a serious character flaw though. Most people can understand someone having a weak moment, but I'd almost have to conclude that MLK, Jr. was a sex addict. Again, not a good problem for a minister to have.

His plagiarism was also a serious flaw. I dare say that everyone whose ever been in college has lifted a sentence or two and dropped it in a report now and again, but this was not the case with King.

Again, from the Ryan article: "An extensive project started at Stanford University in 1984 to publish all of King’s papers tracked down the original sources for these early papers and concluded that his academic writings are “tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism.” Journalist Theodore Pappas, who has also reviewed the collection, found one paper showing “verbatim theft” in 20 of a total of 24 paragraphs. He writes:

“King’s plagiarisms are easy to detect because their style rises above the level of his pedestrian student prose. In general, if the sentences are eloquent, witty, insightful, or pithy, or contain allusions, analogies, metaphors, or similes, it is safe to assume that the section has been purloined.”King also plagiarized himself, recycling old term papers as new ones. Some of his professors complained about sloppy references, but they seem to have had no idea how extensively he was stealing material, and his habits were well established by the time he entered the PhD program at Boston University. King plagiarized one-third of his 343-page dissertation, the book-length project required to earn a PhD, leading some to say he should be stripped of his doctoral degree. "
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I may be a hardass, but I think King SHOULD be stripped of his PhD. I also can understand why some, notably liberals, can give King a pass for the adultery, but can't for the life of me figure out how liberal academia and others can give him a pass on the plagiarism. As often as you hear liberals howl about about how hard they had to study and all the crap they have to put up with to get their PhD's and then they gingerly give King a pass.

I have to chuckle every time I pass a public school that has been named after King. Both my parents were educators, back when that actually meant "to educate' as opposed "to indoctrinate", and, as someone who had to work their butt off to get a four year degree, I personally find King's plagiarism more offensive than his adultery, although the adultery is the greater sin.

I think we can certainly note and appreciate Martin Luther King's contribution to the civil rights movement, but he was a scumbag in his personal life. (and I say that as a reformed scumbag, though I wasn't as bad as he was, however, sins are sins)