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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taraxia" data-source="post: 3009381" data-attributes="member: 42426">...You do realize this is the stupidest argument ever, right, and makes me seriously question that "degree in logic"?Historians have to rigorously check their theses against facts and records and the interpretations of other historians. That's why history is an academic discipline rather than a whole bunch of people venting their speculations into the air. What you're doing is the equivalent of saying, "I was totally well off and happy in the 1960's; my house was very nice, my job was great, and I loved the government; so all that social unrest is a myth". It's exactly the sort of thing historians are *warned about* when reading primary sources, and the reason historians don't just interview some guy who was alive back then and make his statements into a history book -- because *individual experience is biased and unreliable and has to be checked next to the facts and the experiences of others*.As for the Manhattan Project thing... you also realize that in engineering, it matters very much that equations and plans on paper have actually been tested in real life, right? That we didn't just take some handwavy set of plans, build the first ever A-Bomb, and drop it on Hiroshima immediately -- that they had to *try it out first* to see if it worked? And this was based on physics and engineering principles that had already been firmly and logically established in experimentation many times before the actual Project started, as opposed to handwavy and subjective claims like "It sure looks like it'd make a big explosion to me!" by someone who'd only just read the plans and had no degree in nuclear physics.Of course, this whole thing is stupid, since my own subjective experience is that when someone starts making grandiose comparisons between themselves and the entire academic or scientific community, they're probably wrong. But that's me.</blockquote>

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