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                                             June 9, 2020


   Freeman Dyson died this year.
                                                 DYSON

   I noted back in the late 90s that               BIBLES
   the kids seemed to have already
   forgotten about Freeman Dyson, as                    CERTAINTY
   the nerds moved on to an obsession
   with software.                                        DIRAC_TRUTH

     Slashdot never ran a single                                  MULTIPLICITY
     Dyson link I handed them
     during the years he was
     writing for the New York                                     DYSON_LULLABY
     Review of Books.

                       Freeman Dyson's name
                       comes up throughout         THE_HERETIC
                       these pages...


                           THE_SCIENCE_CONSPIRACY      But even so, I could've
                                                       said *more* about him, I
              UNTHINKABLE                              think,  but his major
                                                       popular works date back
               WHOLE_IN_ONE                            to the pre-doomfiles
                                                       era, and I haven't had
                                                       copies of them at hand
                                                       to refer to.
   Freeman Dyson might be regarded as a kind of
   scenester-of-the-sciences, a person who
   banged around in different directions over
   the years with an unconventional career
   that achieved some notable successes.



   He's one of my prime examples of someone who didn't earn
   a degree in his field who is nevertheless worth taking seriously:

                          CREDENTIALS_FREEMAN_DYSON





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