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MAGA thinks they are lied to. They see hoaxes all around them. One of the biggest of these hoaxes is Science. MAGA, not understanding science, laughs at Science. It is not hard to laugh at Science. Here is an example I perform to get students to think seriously about science.*** What a joke! They say action and reaction are equal and opposite.Are they ever?Equal?! Opposite?!But this is what they say.They say, if you put your hand on the wall and push with a force of ten pounds, the wall will push back with a force of ten pounds. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. What a joke!Did you see the wall pushing back? Does a wall ever push back? A wall is a wall. A wall pushing back?! What a joke!Does a wall ever do anything? Action and reaction are equal and opposite. What a joke!And you know what they say too? They say, if you increase your force to twenty pounds, the wall will pushback with twenty pounds! Immediately!!! Rightaway!!! Faster than any Kung Fu master you can ever find. Faster than Bruse Lee.What a joke!***Can you blame MAGA for thinking that Science is a hoax? How can anybody know what is going on inside the wall?MAGA is threatening democracy. We need to take immediate action. Perhaps we can initiate a crash programme to convince anyone who would listen (and talk) that things hidden can be known. Science is not a hoax. Scientists, like babies, are codebreakers. The whole point in breaking codes is to know, really know, what you cannot see!Do you know that Newton was the foremost codebreaker in England at the time?

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If I give you the solution of the SBR string (a simple cipher), on hearing it you could ask me: How do you know?

I deciphered it.

Let me see! Yes, you are right. I got the same answer too.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

How do you know?

The Third Law of Motion. Newton’s Third Law of Motion. He discovered it.

How?

By treating Nature as a cipher.

The Double Helix …

Yes?

You know there was quite a controversy when it was discovered?

Yes, I know. There was a contestant: the Triple Helix. They managed to eliminate it.

Sherlock Holmes!

Sherlock Holmes?

The method of elimination: When you have eliminated all that which is impossible, whatever remains, must be the truth.

Neat!

The election was stolen.

It was not. There is no evidence that it was.

There is plenty of evidence. [Blah! Blah! Blah!]

They are not evidence. They are all false clues. They led nowhere.

It is not that hard to talk about knowledge as decipherment. And when you do, you eliminate a lot of misunderstandings, intentional or not.

Of course, this assumes the audience understands why cryptanalysis leads you to the truth.

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