“classic experiment” means “wrong bullshit that we have to pretend meant something for historical reasons”
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classic experiments become classic because they make a good story - deploy them as evidence to support already-plausible-sounding theories
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dropping the heavy & light things off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which Galileo didn’t do; though his opponents may have, to show him wrong
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I went and visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa. All I could think was “what a pathetic civil engineering failure, this is so stupid”
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