[Bars4Bill]

Expect more of this drivel as the NYGayTimes loses readers.

[MikeHu]

The author makes the mistake of most "scientific" writers of telling us everything he knows rather than everything we want to know.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

New York Times columnists wouldn't recognize common sense if it ran over them on Fifth Avenue.

[Kirkwood]

It took me a minute to get the connection between a pie eating contest and Einstein. Pie = Pi!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Common sense comes from experience.
Experience comes from not using common sense.

[ALPAPilot]

His remark that "God does not play dice with the universe" reflected his stubborn insistence that specific causes yield specific effects; he could never fully accept the bizarre implication of quantum mechanics that at small scales reality dissolves into a cloud of probabilities. So far, Einstein seems to be wrong about God's aversion to games of chance, but he was right not to abandon his common-sense intuitions about reality. In those many instances when the evidence is tentative, we should not be embarrassed to call on common sense for guidance.

Does this mean ole Einstein was in the Intelligent Design Camp?

Of course the New York Times is going to defend "common sense"; if liberalism had to defend itself by appealing to "data" instead of someone's notion of "common sense" it would have been dead, buried and forgotten long ago. I'm sure Carl Marx had an abundance of common sense. Unfortunately the "data" didn't go his way. Just don't tell the NYT that.