Years later I studied his work demonstrating that stock prices are efficiently priced and concluded that his notion was wrong.Sometimes markets are efficient, sometimes they are not, and it is not possible to know which is which.
The notion was wrong; nevertheless, Lavoisier's and his followers' insistence that chemistry be brought to bear on biology, forced physiologists of the age to do chemistry, if only to refute him.
Both of these notions are wrong.
"I think we need to respect people's philosophical notions unless those notions are wrong," he said.
But these notions are wrong, and doctors who encourage them — or who underuse laxatives when treating toilet troubles — do children a disservice.
The new McDonald's may be uglier than a billowing landscape but the notion that this is wrong because it damages farming is preposterous.
The first, underpinned by the notion that homosexuality is wrong, is that any mention of homosexuality "normalises" gay identity, and might encourage impressionable young people to become gay who otherwise wouldn't.
Most of our kids know that killing is "bad"; the very fabric of our society is built upon the notion that it is wrong to kill another human being.
Aside from the three women the male antagonist juggles (and Kate Upton's Baywatch-worthy bikini jog tastefully thrown in), my main takeaway wasn't the notion that cheating is wrong and immoral.
