Because it shows that just because he's "qualified" to write on hobby-level electronics, doesn't mean much for his extraordinary claims in other fields...
"Although he has no formal academic training in science" from Wiki...
Ooops. But he drew cute LEDs with sperm-photons coming out of them! He launched model rockets at a time when they were very popular and consisted of a cardboard tube with a fireworks motor shoved in one end!
He was barely qualified to write on electronics. He probably thinks of himself
Hey, post links to some of the tutorials you've written and published. Then all the people who were inspired by them to go into a career in EE will post replies, and we'll all know who's really competent!
Or you can continue taking anonymous potshots. Your call.
I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either. But I can't minimize his contributions as a popularizer of electronics. He doesn't have to be a Tesla or Maxwell on the forefront of research, and he doesn't have to have the medi
Ask him about Darwin (Score:1, Insightful)
Mims is well known as a creationist. Ask him why he trusts science when it comes to electronics, but not when it comes to biology.
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"Although he has no formal academic training in science" from Wiki...
Ooops. But he drew cute LEDs with sperm-photons coming out of them! He launched model rockets at a time when they were very popular and consisted of a cardboard tube with a fireworks motor shoved in one end!
He was barely qualified to write on electronics. He probably thinks of himself
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Hey, post links to some of the tutorials you've written and published. Then all the people who were inspired by them to go into a career in EE will post replies, and we'll all know who's really competent!
Or you can continue taking anonymous potshots. Your call.
I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either. But I can't minimize his contributions as a popularizer of electronics. He doesn't have to be a Tesla or Maxwell on the forefront of research, and he doesn't have to have the medi
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Re:Ask him about Darwin (Score:2)
Well, it was one of the few you hadn't already gotten around to using.