What is the silliest misapplication of Godel's incompleteness theorem that you can think of?
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Florian Felix, B.Sc. Mathematics & Mathematical Logic, University of Münster (2018)
Answered 9w ago · Upvoted by Adam Merberg, Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley and Stephen Kurtzman, MA in Mathematics, PhD in Computer Science
I think no theorem gets as much misapplied as Gödels famous first incompleteness theorem. But my favourite misapplication comes from a very well known guy, who is a bit too obsessed with lobsters:
For a further very impressive demonstration of utter misunderstanding, consider for example this gem (Spoiler: No, this is not what the Incompleteness Theorem says)