Appreciate the man, not the myth. Hardly anything written about Nikola Tesla fails to exaggerate his inventions and deify the man. Factually wrong descriptions of his accomplishments are found all over the place. His name is broadly smeared by association with virtually every crank conspiracy theory on the planet. They want magically easy answers to complicated problems, and when they hear that Tesla invented such answers and that the government and industry suppressed them, they trumpet his name to the world. This group has become little more than a cult, an insult to the man and his accomplishments. However, Nikola Tesla was not to blame for any of that. Every reasonable textbook and history book on electromagnetic theory rightly confers upon him the enormous credit he fairly earned. Taking the trouble to learn about Tesla, about his unique personal history and about the reality of what his true contributions were, will always put you on firmer ground than accepting the untrue exaggerated or conspiratorial claims. Whenever you hear a good scientists name co-opted and exploited by the promoters of crankery, you should always be skeptical.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:39:37 +0000
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