Talk:Christopher Zeeman

Picture

I have asked the U of Warwick to see if they have a photo we are permitted to use. Billlion 20:03, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Keep in mind that the question needs to be: "Are there any photos that can be uploaded under a free license such as the GNU Free Documentation License, Creative Commons Attribution / Share Alike, etc." Simply saying "Wikipedia can use this" is not sufficient, as Wikipedia is not the only user of the images that are on Wikipedia. I know this can be frustrating, but it's how copyright issues force and responsible site to work.

PS: It needs to be in writing. I'm not sure how legal email is, but I've accepted it for one of my own contributions in the past. This is not legal advice, though, and I am not a lawyer. -Harmil 21:18, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

I have suggested Tom Abbot at the UoW license it under GFDL. He has an account and that is the normal way to do it, ie by the copyright holder logging in. I am not sure what we would do with a paper letter? Billlion 10:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Catastrophe hype

This hagiography pays very little attention to how Zeeman over-hyped the importance of catastrophe theory in the popular media, with claims about descriptions of aggression in wolves, anorexia, and predictions of prison riots (predictions that turned out to be completely wrong). This over-cooking of the pudding led to the demise, rightly or wrongly, of catastrophe theory as a serious paradigm in science (a little thereafter it was overtaken by the next fads, fractals and chaos). Some of the blame can be laid at the feet of Thom and his cooky esoterism, but in any case this is a decidedly shady side of Saint Zeeman which is completely hidden from view here.137.205.183.31 (talk) 11:19, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

It would need a reliable source to cite before anything along these lines could be included. For example are there articles that say these predictions turned out to be completely wrong? Billlion (talk) 22:55, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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