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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Dangers of Superstitious Physics - Dr. Alberto Martinez, UT Austin - DSPod #209
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Alberto Martinez is a professor of History of Science and Math at University of Texas, Austin. He has written books on the persecution of scientific heretics by the Catholic Church, dishonesty in the contemporary media, the ancient roots of mathematical mysticism, the lost stories of Darwin’s discoveries, revised the history Einstein’s formulation of relativity, and a book on the history of negative numbers. We talk to him about the mythologies built up around scientists and their discoveries, superstition in physics, the death rattle of inquiry, and...