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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 15 hours ago

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    Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

    Always has been, why do you think he’s called SIR Isaac Newton?

    EDIT : Turns out his knighthood was afterwards, but he did have connections. There are several examples of science being the domain of already rich people.

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      • Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
      • James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
      • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
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        Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.

        come on man, don’t start with something distasteful even if it’s true.

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          Judaism is distasteful?

          Or is it the Danes?

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            He was a dreadful Bohr

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            Jewish banking and etc are tied to many (false) conspiracy theories. Me mentioning science has been part of the elites and immediately tying someone who happened to have a family that had bankers that were jewish ties into that in a distasteful/false/etc way.

            I’m sure it’s not intentional, but I don’t like giving these idiots more fuel for their fire

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              Highlighting Jewish banking is anti-semitic. You are correct to challenge this.

              But it’s mainly one particular family tied to the conspiracy theories (many attribute to a pamphlet printed by Georges Dairnvaell). Ethnicity should not be a shield against scrutiny and criticism.

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              I don’t like giving these idiots more fuel for their fire

              You’re that idiot. Using every little fact as an attack on your worldview isn’t healthy. Israel is using that same defense, while creating very powerful connections to censor and shape world politics.

              https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/extended-courtship-linking-jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-israeli-officials/

              https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-politicians-slam-lammy-over-unannounced-meeting-israeli-foreign-minister

              https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/07/israeli-diplomat-shai-masot-caught-on-camera-plotting-to-take-down-uk-mps

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsvjFKGsDg4

              Is is wrong to point that out now too?

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      Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.

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        I was talking about his uncle that gave him an in for University

        His uncle the Reverend William Ayscough, who had studied at Cambridge, recommended him to the university.

        But I just read that shit off wikipedia so, I’m no scholar. 🤷

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