05-07-2016, 04:55 AM
Flip Flops - 1
Ivy League Economist - 0
A dark skinned man on an airline flight was working intently on some strange Arabic looking calculations. "Was he a Muslim terrorist trying to blow up the plane?" wondered his casual flip flop wearing seatmate. She informed the flight crew.
The plane was first delayed, then returned to the gate, where the culprit turned out to be an award winning economist and university professor working on a differential equation. He bought his ticket not to blow up the plane, but to give a speech at a University about a paper he authored. He was not Middle Eastern, or even Muslim, he was Italian.
This incident reminded me of the TMT protests last summer, where a few misinformed people created their own personal explanations about a telescope and it's applications*, spread those false scenarios to others, and caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people who were just trying to mind their own business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ramp...es-flight/
* Military applications, death lasers, watershed pollution, etc, etc, etc...
Ivy League Economist - 0
A dark skinned man on an airline flight was working intently on some strange Arabic looking calculations. "Was he a Muslim terrorist trying to blow up the plane?" wondered his casual flip flop wearing seatmate. She informed the flight crew.
The plane was first delayed, then returned to the gate, where the culprit turned out to be an award winning economist and university professor working on a differential equation. He bought his ticket not to blow up the plane, but to give a speech at a University about a paper he authored. He was not Middle Eastern, or even Muslim, he was Italian.
This incident reminded me of the TMT protests last summer, where a few misinformed people created their own personal explanations about a telescope and it's applications*, spread those false scenarios to others, and caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people who were just trying to mind their own business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ramp...es-flight/
* Military applications, death lasers, watershed pollution, etc, etc, etc...
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