Talk:Steven Weinberg

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I note that this page is linked to the Steve Weinberg who died in the 11 Sept attacks at: Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: City of New York

I think a disambig page is called for, but I am too depressed to do it myself.

Paul, in Saudi

I added a paragraph explaining Weinbergs strong support of Israel with a link to an essay he wrote.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg 06:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Weinberg's Principle 2 Userspace link 3 Atheism as a religion 4 Robert Jensen 5 Is this a scam? 6 WikiProject class rating 7 Category inventor 8 source needed

[edit] Weinberg's Principle

Weinberg's Principle (according to the 'net):- An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

[edit] Userspace link

This page contains a link to User:RK/A Liberal Defense of Zionism. Links from the main article space into userspace are inappropriate, as they break mirrors. Can someone find a sensible fix for this, please? Sensible solutions include removing the article, finding an external source (and use an exlink), or moving the currently userspace article to wikisource. Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 04:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Atheism as a religion

There was a religion entry which I've deleted, since it include "Atheist" as a religious identity. Not mentioining any religion would be more appropriate for the Steven Weinberg article.More, Steven Weinberg is certainly a Jew and also seeing himself as one, supporting the Jewish state of Israel storngly for this reason- and while Jewishness is not merely amatter of godliness, mentioning Weinberg as an Athesit could make people wrongly thinking that he is not Jewish.--Gilisa 11:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Steven Weinberg is an atheist, he identifies himself an atheist. But atheism is not a religion.That's right.

Dr. Weinberg is a Jewish atheist. User:Devraj5000

[edit] Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen is pro-islamic terrorism. I think the criticism section should be removed. User:Devraj5000

I think User:Devraj5000 is engaging in gratuitous slandering. The section needs to be restored. Fromm

Regardless of Jensen's views on terrorism, the "Criticism" section is not appropriate, as it consists entirely of an uncritical narration of Jensen's recent attack on Weinberg based on an alleged conversation. At the very least it should be removed until Weinberg comments.

A criticism section is by definition a narrative of criticism levelled against the subject in question. Not sure why we need to await Weinberg's response before Jensen's crticism is posted. By that thinking, all that Weinberg has to do is ignore his detractors and no one would know what criticism people are levelling against him. Fromm

I am not engaging in gratuitous slandering. Robert Jensen's views are controversial. User:Devraj5000

Steven Weinberg's views on politics and international relations - one might say particularly his accusations of anti-semitism against large sections of the British population - are also controversial. And he is not notable on account of having such views, but primarily for being a Nobel prize-winning physicist and secondarily for being an outspoken rationalist and scientific atheist. It seems strange and inappropriate that an encyclopedia entry on a famous physicist should concentrate on such political views and not on any other aspects of his work or opinions. The current article appears, in short, totally driven by current news events and lacking in any proportion or perspective. --Tdent 14:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a scam?

This article is a disgrace for Wikipedia.

The article talks about one of the greatest living physisists. It contains 0 (ZERO) information about his contribution to science. It contains one paragraph of formal curiculum vitae. After this it has six paragraphs devoted to his attitude to Israel. Then it has a special section devoted to critisism of this really great scientist by some Robert Jensen whose "work has focused on pornography" (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Steven_Weinberg&action=edit&section=new).

Is this a joke? Is this a scam to promote Robert Jensen from obscurity?

I agree with you (and with the other users that expressed the same opinion here). I removed that section. It shouldn't be here according to WP:BLP#Criticism because the criticism expresses views irrelevant to subject's notability (Weinberg is a distinguished physicist, but not a famous politician or something like that); and also because the criticism represents the views of a tiny minority. Yevgeny Kats 01:40, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I totally agree with Yevgeny Kats. And, thanks for removing the criticism section. Steven Weinberg is one of the greatest physicists of all time and Robert Jensen is a punk. RS

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category inventor

I hit the minor edit box by mistake, sorry about that. An IP added this category. It seems that scientist, ect discover , rather than invent. Is there a souce that says that this person is an inventor? Anyways, it sort of is a minor point but I posted here since I hit the minor box in error. Cheers! --Tom (talk) 22:03, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] source needed

when the univ of texas lured weinberg from harvard, they had to offer him an astronomical salary - SW wanted to be the highest paid prof on campus. turns out, despite the astronomical salary he did get there was one higher paid prof, the football coach. says a lot about both weinberg and texas. Cinnamon colbert (talk) 13:29, 4 March 2008 (UTC)