Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 20, 2005

You’re right, too many of these comic strip writers think they know everything when its just their opinion. They are not professors.

But Jan didn’t present it as a History lesson. She presented it as a HerStory lesson.

(Though I agree, this is just wrong.)

OK, I was shocked by the claims made by J.E. in this strip that I decided to check them up, and I found quite a bit of evidence contradicting them. Probably the best rebuttal I’ve seen so far is this article by Dr. Alberto Martinez, a historian specialized in the history of science, now a professor at the University of Texas at Austin but at the time with the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).  Note that while the strip is from late November 2005, the article I linked above is from early 2005 and this other article written by Dr. Martinez on the same subject is from 2004 (unfortunately the latter requires subscription). I mention this to point out that the articles were available at the time J.A. drew the strip. As Martinez quotes Carl Sagan, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. But also if you are going to propagate extraordinary claims made by others, you are required to do exhaustive research to support those claims, which J.A. clearly didn’t do. I’m sorry to say this about a woman whose work I enjoy so much, but I have to say it:   *Shame on you, Jan Eliot*.

there is a book seris called the missing found is the first one one has mileva in it look it up she was amazing in one she is in the second or third book

I seem to be the minority here, but this is a CARTOON.