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Category: People who mistook a credential for a conclusion

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  • GPS – The most thoroughly relativistic machine in ordinary civilian use, whose clocks were detuned before launch, and which is regularly offered as evidence that relativity is unnecessary.
  • A. Sterling Sill – Victorian gentleman (1821–1879) of independent means and a single proposition – that the horizontal does not slope – which is locally true, globally fatal, and as far as he ever got.

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