Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...
Readers of the current Scientific American are informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools...
...Harvard-Radcliffe shuttlebus, demanding its collected fares. Told that the bus is free, Bok demands to be driven to Cuba. The driver lies and tells her there is not enough fuel, and she is captured attempting to parachute out the rear emergency door. "We can't all be Einstein," she shrugs, as she is led away...
...Freud. Einstein. Even a Kissinger type...
...most dogmatically and uncritically-honored theory in science today was published and promoted solely in the 20th century: Einsteinian special relativeity. In happens that Einstein as a boy experienced an "orgy" of revulsion against all traditional religious teachings. During my graduate study of history and philosophy of science, I became convinced that his special theory and all of its claims of evidential support are invalidated by unwarranted assumptions and circular reasoning; but trying to communicate this measage has proven a formidable task. Herbert Dingle, a renegade from the physics establishment, has tried to do so for many years in England...