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Originally posted by Ustwo
Yes we all know China won the cold war and scientists never say anyting is impossible unless it truly is impossible. It reminds me of that 'consensus' of scientists who said we wouldn't see powered flight for another 100 years, and I can't wait to see it in 3 more years!
Very few people, who don't like Reagan, like giving him credit for anything. I had a FDR democrat professor who I used to debate politics with. According to him, every republican president was stupid, any anything good that came during their time was pure luck or in spite of them. He is a very smart guy but politics has replaced religion for him, and much like talking about evolution with a creationist, he just turns his brain off and tries to rationalize anything good a republican does in some way that doesn't offend his left wing beliefs.
Saying Reagan had nothing to do with the collapse of the USSR is the intellectual equivalent of putting your hands up to your ears and say 'lalalalala I can't hear you!'.
As a side note, I am a scientist, published, all that stuff, and let me tell you the important thing in science. Its not how many people say something can?t be done that matters, it?s the one person that figures out how it can be done that matters. Science isn?t advanced by committee, its normally one person, who despite often being derided by their more established peers, manages to do something in a way that?s never been done before.
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Well, since I've made similar claims regarding my expertise on a particular subject, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in regards to your academic accomplishments.
I urge you, however, to concede that claims to the effect that Reagan was the
cause of the downfall of communism or the Soviet Union (e.g., "Yet he also pretty much single handedly had Mr Gorbachev 'Tear down that Wall!'") are at least equally problematic as those claiming his policies had
nothing to do with their nation's economic instability.