• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago
      • 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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        4 months ago

        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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            4 months ago

            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