Liars all! Lorentz lower left, lied to Einstein, upper right, who proceeded with the best lies of all time. And you might well ask, why are these people smiling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

Physicists are the Best Liars

The Pinnacle of Human Kind

Robert Thibadeau
Published in
3 min readApr 25, 2022

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The study of lies, Mendaciology, is a computational cognitive neuroscience.

No group of people have succeeded so well at lying than the physicists. Bar none, they are the best liars. They have proven it is possible to lie, make up excuses with their stories, and get away with lying. And, indeed, they have proven you can turn pathological lying into a true art form. It’s called science.

Here is proof. This proof doesn’t take long to read, but I can’t summarize it here, because the topic of this article isn’t about how they lie. It’s about how they get away with it.

Let’s just say, physicists are pretty imaginative folks. This article is about how physicists, other professionals, and you, too, can succeed with spinning lies, getting away with them, and perhaps leaving the world a little better for it.

So, what are the rules on how to spin your life spinning lies and getting away with it?

It is, of course, an anagram.

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Robert Thibadeau
LieCatcher

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com