Widely accepted theories ideas that you disagree with.

[HeadingNorth]

I'm sure he's delighted that you've failed to answer the question for him, saving him the trouble.

 

I'll happily admit to not knowing what a muon neutrino is - which rather proves my point that the knowledge is completely irrelevant to this debate. Whether Upinwath knows or not what a muon neutrino is, your attack on him was still false.

[fake]

Ok here are some that I don't agree with;

 

That the speed of light is constant.

 

That the Earth's magnetic field is produce by a spinning central core.

 

That Gravity is an attractive force.

 

That the Universe started with a singularity.

[WasThatWise]

In don't think we actually exist, we are all characters in a soap and there are larger beings watching us and having a good laugh at the mess we are making, as script writers dream up the next wars and financial crises.

[Mister M]

IMO The widely accepted belief that Thatcher revolutionised the British economy and brought us into the modern era was nothing more than a masterful piece of propaganda achieved by constantly repeating the mantra

and cherry picking the evidence to back it up over a number of years.

 

Thatcher went from having one of the lowest popularity levels of any British leader ever, to huge approval ratings within the few short weeks of the Falklands war. Her popularity was born of patriotic fervour (despite the fact she had slashed navy patrols in the Falklands and set in motion the chain of events which led to the war). When Britain began to benefit from the global economic upturn which began the following year, the slick Tory propaganda machine took maximum advantage of this climate of widespread unconditional admiration for our glorious, victorious war leader, and the myth of the Thatcher 'economic miracle' was born.

 

The short boom in the mid to late 80s was something which happened across most the developed world. Furthermore, In the UK, it was heavily subsidised though the sell off of oil and other national assets, and the large sums withdrawn from public services and the NHS.

 

On the other hand, the housing crash which began on Thatcher's watch, and which caused the return of economic stagnation, was particular to the UK. Thatcher aimed to massively increase the proportion of home owners, and she kicked started the rush on the housing market by introducing thousands of new owners through the sale of public housing stock. It is hard to see how this policy could not have been - at least - a strong contributory factor to the ensuing property bubble.

 

Some of Thatcher's reforms to labour laws and industrial subsidisation were neccessary. But she went way too far. She clearly regarded British manufacturing to be a bastion of the left, and it is difficult to believe her fervour was solely the result of long term economic planning. British industry has never recovered.

 

In the current economic climate, the wisdom of running down the manufacturing base - in favour encouraging the type of economy which Thatcher ushered in - starts to become very questionable in its irreversable long term effects. Those countries which have withstood the current global economic chaos the best are the manufacturing countries.

 

Well said Donkey, top post!