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Einstein and a theory of disinformation
Time is relative, depending on your frame of reference. Maybe truth is too?
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The sense of our own intellectual infallibility has led to an extreme lack of humility in all sorts of people, says the writer.
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Benyamin Cohen
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A decade ago, Ivanka Trump offered her Twitter followers a bit of wisdom from one of the world’s favourite geniuses to impress her legions of Twitter followers. “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. – Albert Einstein.”
There was one problem: Einstein never said that.
