PBS Continues to Promote False History Trashing Einstein

NewsBusters.org ^ | 8/18/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[ronnie raygun]

Is this part of thier fairness doctrine, I want my tax dollars pulled from this propagandist station.

[Born to Conserve]

This has nothing to do with the ‘wife’ controversy, but have you all wondered why Einstein didn’t get a Nobel Prize for his work on relativity?

Perhaps his contributions were not as impressive as the Einstein pushers would have us believe?

[nyyankeefan]

churchill stated...history is written by the victors....

pbs has stated...history is written by the lib/dem pbs writers.....

orwell stated....who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past....

pbs has stated....who controls the airwaves...controls the present!!!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is why I NEVER watch PBS or listen to NPR. They are nothing but a couple of tired, old, Soviet-style propaganda machines out to destroy our history, our traditions and our culture. Just a bunch of white, old hippies who hate themselves for not being born “a person of color.”

[RightWhale]

have you all wondered why Einstein didn’t get a Nobel Prize for his work on relativity?

No. We know why and it isn't at all as you imply.

[gcruse]

“This is just another example of how the truth and factuality mean nothing to the left.’

You mean as opposed to the anti-science creationist right?

[gcruse]

“When Einstein won the Nobel Prize he sent it all to his former wife.’

Well, yes... as part of their divorce settlement.

[webboy45]

The movie might have errors, but the premise could still be correct. Einstein’s first wife was a physicist and she was given all the money from his Nobel prize.

[Marie2]

“have you all wondered why Einstein didn’t get a Nobel Prize for his work on relativity?”

“No. We know why and it isn’t at all as you imply.”

Well, share!

[Enchante]

Feminist revisionist drivel. This is the Michael Moore-on standard of ‘documentary’ —fabricated, distorted, and imagined...... pour into the ‘documentary’ whatever nonsense serves the current political agenda.

[Reily]

Theoretical Physics accomplishments never get Nobel prizes!
It’s considered a form of Mathematics by the Nobel committee.
Alfred Nobel purposely set up his “prize” for “practical science”, practical in the sense it had to directly benefit mankind. (Of course “practical & beneficial “ as he defined “practical & beneficial”. Why not? It was his money!) The Physics prizes are all some form of Experimental Physics. The idea being experiments & the results are "practical"!)
For example, Steve Hawkings has never won a Noble Prize and John Nash’s Nobel Prize was in Economics not Mathematics ! [Game Theory (Non-cooperative game theory, I think ?) as applied to economics. ]
The Mathematics rough equivalent of the Nobel Prize is the Fields Medal. I have no idea what the Field Medal criteria is or is work in Theoretical Physics even eligible. Also I don't think the Fields Medal is as lucrative.

[RightWhale]

Well, share!

Sure. We ought to post things after a little research rather than thinking up the worst and posting that as a guess when these things are very well known.

[Enchante]

Re: the case of PBS on Einstein’s first wife -— there are so many fabrications, absurd speculations, and distortions of the known evidence that it is obvious that PBS types simply loved a feminist de-bunking of a great scientist. There is no reason at all to believe the 1st wife played any significant role in the development of any aspect of Einstein’s work. What they had was a loving relationship for a few years that faded in time. She was a mediocre student of physics for high school teachers who never advanced beyond standard undergraduate topics of the time. There is a clear statement of hers in a 1906 letter that refers to all the physics papers that HE has written and gives no hint that she played the slightest role at all. There is a lot of good info on Esterson’s website exposing the extent of the PBS fraud:

http://www.esterson.org

[kbennkc]

I used to love Bill Moyers when he was press secretary for L.B.J. He would occasionally break out in giggles like he had been smoking ditch weed.

[RobbyS]

Mary Todd was a kind of family rebel, and I don’t mean the Confederate kind. She married Lincoln in spite of what her sister thought.of him. Oh, yes, her family was Confederate and she lost relatives in the war. Washington held it against her. But her sentiments about were more like those of Cassius Clay than most.

[RobbyS]

Maybe I heard it wrong, but I heard that LBJ finally got rid of him because he was so santimonius. Maybe not, but he sure is full of himself.

[Verginius Rufus]

Future shows will credit the discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton to their wives.

[kbennkc]

Nothing has been going right for Sir Issac for some time now. All this quantum gibberish is bad enough , but now every time he is mentioned , he is declared to be a poofter.

[Erasmus]

Theoretical Physics accomplishments never get Nobel prizes! It’s considered a form of Mathematics by the Nobel committee.

Ummm, you might want to actually look at the list of the physics recipients and the work that got them the prize.

[Erasmus]

A bit of a stretch in Sir Isaac’s case, though. I guess they’d invent a (completely nonexistent!) boytoy instead.

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