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The quote mine — what they cut out

The claim

“Even their own scientists admit it. We are only quoting them.”

What is measured

Six famous quotations, six cuts. In each case the missing words are next to the quoted ones, and in each case they say the opposite. A claim that needs the second half of a sentence removed is not quoting a scientist. It is editing one.

What would show this is wrong

producing any of these quotations in full context and showing the speaker meant what the clip implies. The full transcripts are public: Einstein’s Kyoto and Leiden addresses, Michelson and Morley’s 1887 paper, Tesla’s 1934 article, and the unedited Tyson and Kaku recordings. Read the next sentence.

Sources

  1. Einstein, Kyoto, 1922: the omitted clause. In “How I Created the Theory of Relativity,” Einstein said the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment, “though the Earth link
  2. Einstein, Leiden, 1920: “Ether and the Theory of Relativity.” Einstein calls general-relativistic spacetime an aether, then states that it “may not be thought of as endowed with the quality link
  3. Michelson and Morley (1887) and what the null result meant. The experiment found no motion of the Earth relative to a stationary luminiferous aether; the conclusion was that the stationary-a link
  4. The fabricated Tesla “Earth is a realm” passage. Fact-checkers and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade confirm Tesla never wrote it; it originated in a 2016 Facebook post and appended a genu link
  5. Tyson’s “pear-shaped” remark in context. He was describing the geoid, which departs from the reference ellipsoid by no more than about 100 m, roughly 0.0016% of Earth’s radius, and said in t link
  6. Michio Kaku, asked directly about the shape of the Earth. Presented with flat-Earth conference talking points that quoted him, Kaku replied: “You don’t have to be a genius to figure it out. link
  7. Auguste Piccard and the “flat disc with upturned edge.” Piccard and Kipfer reached 15,781 m on 27 May 1931, the first flight into the stratosphere, and the FAI credits them with observing th link
  8. NASA on the photographed curvature of the Earth, 1930 and 1935. NASA’s history pages carry Capt. Albert W. Stevens’s photograph of 30 December 1930, taken from 21,000 feet over Villa Mercede link
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