The Royal Society is thinking of chucking Elon Musk out of their exclusive club. The man who caught a falling rocket, who bought electric cars to the world, who is testing chips that may heal paralysis, and runs the first private company to put astronauts in space, is not good enough for the precious collective. One day, he may well get us to Mars. Which science club would look pretty silly then?
After all, it’s not like he faked data, wasted billions in grants, sold taxpayers a hundred dodgy weather-changing-schemes, or killed people with an experimental drug is it? (Though, if he had, they’d probably give him a medal.)
It’s all about The Money
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and hasn’t chucked anyone out for 150 years, so you’d think his crime must be a serious failing in science. Supposedly, the mob say, he breached their code of conduct, was mean to other members and spread “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation”. But the real truth, as even Nature explains in their subheader, is that he committed the unforgivable sin of cutting off the grant money.
We know this because even though 74 members protested last August with a truckload of complaints, the mass pile-on only happened in the last few weeks when President Trump and the DOGE team were shutting down wasteful programs. Suddenly 3,000 members scientists of some sort are upset enough to sign an open letter. Auditing taxpayer funds is a bridge too far for the dependent minions of Big Government. Too much waste is never enough.
One member, Dorothy Bishop resigned last year, and said Musk was guilty of using social media for the crime of “political propaganda“. As if half the members of the Royal Society don’t lecture us on blogs, tweets and the nightly news with smug left climate politics every other day. What she really means is he does the wrong kind of political propaganda.
The Royal Society members can pretend that this is not about the money, but after Dorothy Bishop laid out her list of issues, they hired a lawyer to investigate, and they said that Elon had not broken the Code of Conduct. So what’s left is that this really is about “the money”.
The Open Letter to the Royal Society from Emeritus Professor Stephen Curry lists the money and somehow calls it a free speech issue:
The situation is rendered more serious because Mr Musk now occupies a position within a Trump administration in the USA that has over the past several weeks engaged in an assault on scientific research in the US that has fallen foul of federal courts. It has sought to impose huge cuts in funding and a regime of censorship (particularly with regard to EDI and climate issues) that is a direct threat to freedom of expression and academic freedom.
If the Royal Society gave a toss about free speech they would have objected to the vilification of scientists who disagree with government mandated “consensuses”. They would have protested the sacking of anyone with a diverse view. Instead they’re not only silent about cancel-culture in science, they endorse it. They rewarded and lauded the namecalling psychologist who calls skeptical scientists “climate deniers” — a political, demeaning label, designed to bully and silence them. Consider Stephen Lewandowsky (fellow of the Royal Society) who hid his data, included a person who was 32,000 years old in a survey, and miraculously claimed to show “skeptics” of government consensuses are nutters by asking other people (who are hostile to skeptics) to fill out a survey. It was that bad. (And yes, he has signed the letter objecting to Elon Musk). The Royal Society is fine with bullying, and bad science — as long as it doesn’t threaten the funding.
Elon Musk — “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci“
As for Curry’s other objections to Elon Musk, the Society was tarnished, he said, by its lack of commitment to “diversity and inclusion” because Elon joked about Anthony Fauci on X and the Society hadn’t reprimanded him. The real question here is why the Royal Society should care much about diversity and inclusion. Shouldn’t they care about merit and scientific standards instead?
Dorothy Bishop says Elon breached the Code of Conduct. The rules, she says, are that:
Fellows and Foreign Members shall treat all individuals in the scientific enterprise collegially and with courtesy, and …shall not engage in any form of discrimination, harassment, or bullying.
Most of those I’ve spoken to agree that a serious breach of these principles was in 2022, when Musk tweeted: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci“, thereby managing to simultaneously offend the LGBTQ community, express an antivaxx sentiment, and put Fauci, already under attack from antivaxxers, at further risk. Fauci was not a Fellow at the time these comments were made, but that should not matter given the scope of the statement is “individuals in the scientific community“. This incident was covered by CBS News.
Since then Fauci has been pardoned by President Joe Biden for everything back to 2014, which Fauci accepted, showing that Elon was not just funny, but right: “Prosecute Fauci” indeed.
Thou shalt not question injections — is that science?
Dorothy Bishop was concerned about “Musk’s use of X to spread misinformation, promote vaccine hesitancy and attack public sciences “. No one at the Royal Society apparently, or at Nature (which repeated her accusation), had the wit to point out that it was a strange scientific paradigm to say that one type of medical therapy was beyond question. The motto of the Royal Society is Nullius in Verba, which means “take no one’s word for it”– except apparently when it’s a new barely-tested mRNA therapy, of course, and then we’re supposed to take everyone’s word for it, all the time, and inject our pregnant women and babies too. It’s like vaccines are a holy sacrament — or perhaps a huge source of revenue for Royal Society members?
Shh. We wouldn’t want to put open discussion about public health above profits, patents and grants, would we?
The Royal Society acts every day more and more like a trade union for approved priests of science.
They reveal their small mindedness in so many ways. They accuse Musk of “attacking public sciences” which begs the question of what a public science is? Is that different to real science? Or has the Royal Society totally forgotten that science is a process and not a government institution?
The original full name of the Society was The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge and no one on Earth is doing more to improve natural knowledge than Elon Musk is. And the reason he can do so much, so fast, is surely because he is funding it all himself, not waiting for government approval, appeasing bureaucrats, or cringing before “science” committees with magical fashionable keywords like diversity.
Musk should quit the Royal Society because it has forgotten what science is
The Royal Society don’t know it, but they desperately need Elon Musk. The Royal Society has become nothing more than a workers union for government funded technicians dressed in lab coats, and he’s the greatest private scientist in the world today. He is the antidote to government funded paralysis in science (and in so many ways). Consensus “scientists” are just a paid marketing wing of Big Government — captured by the monopolistic funding.
The Royal Society need Elon much more than Elon needs the Royal Society. He should quit now, before they hold their sanctimonious meeting.
*UPDATE: Quitting? Nah. It only makes the Thought Police happy. Unless he has the time to excoriate them properly on the way out, it’s so much better to let them dig their own hole in public, then come crawling back when he gets to Mars. Besides, Elon has 218 million followers on X – If he wanted to set up a Society of Scientists — ones who care about the scientific method, he could do it tomorrow.
REFERENCE
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00486-5
h/t Willie Soon
Perhaps the RS donkeys would also consider cancelling the new US Energy Secretary Chris Wright? Yesterday he talked to the big UK ARC conference and his 12.5 minutes was full of facts and common sense.
He really rips into the net zero con and fra-d and calls it sinister and delusional and backs up his claims with data.
He also finishes on our Aussie future and hopes we have the brains to change our course and ditch the net zero lunacy.
Never forget that energy security is national security. China, Russia, etc understand these critical energy facts, so when will the OECD countries wake up and safeguard our future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9dSJEhx1Y
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Unshackling the US economy from the Climate hoax. Getting back to real enterprise without artificial constraints imposed by the woke imbeciles who think they can fix the weather by confining the rest of humanity.
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The real problem is not the money. Unjustified guv funding will always be bent to guv, not to anything useful.
What is now at stake is the BLAME.
They know retribution is coming as the evidence from Elon’s accounting team mounts.
Actual jail time could happen.
The Blob is fighting a last ditched effort to avoid prison.
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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/congress-funding-doge/2025/02/19/id/1199751/
Do Not Pass Go
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Musk is right over target. All those so called “scientists” who accept the Climate hoax because it keeps them employed.
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Elon makes mistakes and breaks many things, but he can’t break the laws of physics. A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of the US Government is probably not a good thing. Do you really want a 20 year programmer making decisions about your future?
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20 yo programmers under Musk direction verses infantile AI trained with 20 years of LLM input from predominately leftist media and academia.
So humanity’s future is in safe hands either way?
And there is so much of the real “laws of physics” that we don’t yet understand.
Surely we are allowed to break any “consensus” in or about the laws of physics?
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Give us a break Simon not even you believe that B.S. On that metric, it’s the 20 year old nurse at the hospital taking your blood sample, who makes ‘decisions’ on your health treatment.
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“Do you really want a 20 year programmer making decisions about your future?”
No worse than what we have! Albosleazy & Blackout Bowen… lol! Give me a 20yr old programmer please!
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US$2T must be taken from the budget this year. This is just to balance the current cash flow. Then there is the US$37T. The interest on this debt is currently 23% of all US federal government income.
DOGE is not cutting fast enough or deep enough to save the USA from bankruptcy.
If the reserve currency goes under so do ALL the dependent currencies.
A depression usually followed by a world war. Likely a nuclear war.
Elon Musk has been chosen by Trump to save the western world’s economy.
Our peers got us into this mess because they are greedy and stupid.
If Elon fails we are screwed!
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They couldn’t do a worse job than the ones siphoned off the money and redirected it to themselves and their political cause.
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Albert Einstein in his youth – under 40
How much in grants did he get?
Well, none for his Nobel Prize in 1921 for the Photoelectric Effect
None for his E=MC2
None for convincing FDR to start the Manhattan Project.
Hitler called Atomic Science “Judische Wissenschaft” – Jew Science so no $’s from Adolf. By then he was in the US anyway.
I’m sure there is a letter from 3,000 German scientists supporting The Third Reich somewhere.
Read Walter Isaacson’s Bio of Einstein – no grants.
How many grants has Musk gotten? Government contracts, yes, he bid for them, won and the rest is history.
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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz must be the only Royal Society members as well known for their achievements as is Elon Musk.
I could not reach either of them for a comment on this situation.
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Isaac Newton’s tweets can be a bit enigmatic. His recent (c.1700) tweet on climate science and globalisation, for example:
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
But to my mind, his best tweet of all was about climate modelling:
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.“
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He also Tweeted in 1718:
And all without any taxpayer grants. He was mostly self-funded, or got a small stipend as Lucasian Professor at Oxford.
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Wikipaedia
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Newton was Lucasian Professor from 1669 to 1702. Master of the Mint from 1696.
His quote “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” came after the South Sea Bubble ended late 1720 (in which he claimed to have lost £20,000 but there is some doubt that he might have included what he may have got if he had sold out first). He did die quite really.
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Correction: The Lucasian Professorship was at Cambridge.
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Glad YOU made that correction. I was about to do it!
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David Maddison, #3.1.1,
____X had a fat character limit for tweets back then. ☺️
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IMO
The presidents of The Royal Society over the last 20 or so years have made an important (if inadvertent) contribution by emphasising that
Nullius in Verba
also applies to Royal Societies
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And The Royal Society has been there before –
“In 1895, Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, said:
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
On Dec. 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers successfully made the first controlled heavier-than-air human flight.”
https://www.upf.edu/web/angel-lozano/innovation/-/asset_publisher/ci9l6ysN1QzQ/content/e-flying-machines-are-impossible/maximized
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Ah, the great calculus controversy. I gather that in the fullness of time they both share the honours.
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“Dorothy Bishop was concerned about “Musk’s use of X to spread misinformation, promote vaccine hesitancy …”
Dr. Deborah Birx Confirms COVID Vaccine Was ‘Not Designed to Prevent Against Infection’ in Shocking Revelation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/dr-deborah-birx-confirms-covid-vaccine-was-not-designed-to-prevent-against-infection-in-shocking-revelation/ar-AA1ziXwG
Imagine, hesitancy in being forced to be injected with a vaccine that does not vaccinate.
(Not even “designed” … ?)
Methinks we are not yet privy to what it was ‘designed’ for.
Royal lies.
Royally obvious.
Royal _______ s … (insert preferred insult, perhaps something illegal in Germany).
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Well rally, Royal Society and Dorothy Bishop!
Have you forgotten the Royal Society Motto?
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Bishop, being a psychologist should be aware of speaking about things that she has little expertise. A certain cobbler in an ancient Greek market for example.
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Ultracrepidarianism.
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This site helps me make every day a school day. A new (useful) word (Ultracrepidarianism) and finding out that psychologists consider themselves to be ‘scientists’.
All that from two short comments
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Problem is we are all born ultrarepidarian and will die ultrarepidarian.
As I recall, Krishna takes great pain explaining this to Arjuna.
It is pretty much the entire message in the Bhagavad Gita.
I say this as a practicing ultrarepidarian.
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Jo, thank you for this!
Auto
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Our Australian Academy of Science is just as fully captured by ignorant leftards who have no understanding of the scientific method.
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Well, I have to admit I’m tired of hearing our Chief Scientist of Australia spouting rubbish about climate and Indigenous people as if it is all established fact.
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I think they do understand the scientific method. That makes them much worse.
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The moral corruption of the Royal Society, which was once a scientific institution, just goes to show you how pervasive has been the plan of the German Communist who in 1967 devised the long march through the institutions (der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) to infiltrate, over a long period of time, Communists into all institutions, public and private.
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Oops. The German Communist to which I referred was Rudi Dutschke.
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If he did that he might save the RS future embarrassment.
Maybe let them do what they are going to do and then see who voted in favour and who voted against.
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Yes. This morning I was thinking the same thing. If he had the time to excoriate them, leaving makes sense. But since he has 1,000 more important things to do, it would be better to let them dig their hole publicly, and respond after the fact…
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I’ll have to get more popcorn.
This is gonna be fun!
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Today’s recommended reading is Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil’s Pact By John Cornwell.. Theoretical science was dismissed as “Jewish” science and was not considered “real”. Engineering was German science. Scientists were coerced to work for the regime by blackmail. As a result, many fled and Germany lost a major competitive advantage.
Unfortunately, many people think that fascism arrives wearing fancy dress.
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Wow JO.
This has got to be one of your best!
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“This has got to be one of your best!”
I agree and this is another reminder of why I need to continue to support this site. Some “Emergency Chocolates” are headed your way, Jo.
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Thanks Ric, and thank you to Wal1957 too. 🙂 Much appreciated.
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LOL. Projecting a bit are they.
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The RS should be smart enough to see that there is no such thing as a “greenhouse gas”.
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Never forget that the Royal Society tells us that they want to return us to the LIA, when under 1 billion people were mostly illiterate and most worked on the land and many starved on a regular basis. And global life expectancy in 1770 was just 28.5 years.
Look up their quote at the link and their scientists also tell us that we wouldn’t return to co2 levels of 280 ppm for THOUSANDs of YEARS even if we STOPPED all Human co2 emissions today.
This is just more laughable lunacy and do they really believe voters will continue to vote for their delusional nonsense until 3025 or 4025 or …..?
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-20/
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Hoist with his own petard ~
Finally (!) the scales fall from mine eyes and comprehension of that saying is made clear, as per:
Royal Society’s Question No.20
“The current CO2-induced warming of Earth is therefore essentially irreversible on human timescales”.
So WTF is the problem! Thanks Neville, another touché moment.
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Anyone need further proof that ‘science’ has become 100% political
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Republican members of the the House of Reps continue to fight and expose the greatest fra-d and corruption in history.
The Demorats are clearly horrified that a lot more of this corruption will be exposed over the coming weeks, months and years.
Just 5 minutes from about 2 hours ago and let’s hope this continues to be exposed until the culprits are brought to justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Slt7Kielmw
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“Suddenly 3,000 members are upset enough to sign an open letter.”
Does the Royal Society have 3000 members? Maybe < 2000.
Seems the open letter requester asked for just ANY scientist to sign it.
Can't find Mickey Mouse like another such list of scientists but probably some odd ones in there.
There might be a preponderance of phama/medico scientists?
33 "Australia" identified with 10 from ANU.
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There are thousands of leftards out there just waiting to sign a petition. Any petition. Afterall they are of the hive – the commune, the collective mind that keeps them stupid dullards.
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Well, there are now 3001 names on the letter. https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
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Do any of these turkey “scientists” worry about their name being published with anti-Musk sentiments?
Particularly when Musk has done so many positive things for “real science” not their political science.
And he has the capability and opportunity to do so much more for real science?
Shouldn’t they recognize the risk of their names (and maybe even their offspring) being now on some “avoid” blackli$t?
If they are truly worried about not getting a slice of future funding of science, this seems like an own-goal.
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Actually that was a good point by Russell. I’ve updated the post. There is a caveat in the rider above the names that includes any old “international scientist”. ie… anyone.
And yes, to Russell’s newer point — you would think the brighter ones would wonder whether they should attack Musk so carelessly when he’s not only the richest employer of private research but rather close to the largest source of public funds too.
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The UK has “jumped the shark” . BIG crash coming . The nutters have taken over the asylum type crazy. Their “royal” is as mentally challenged as Biden . You will know when that has happened when the “refugee” boats stop coming or start going the other way….
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Touché!
Let ‘er rip, Jo, you beauty!
As for DM’s #3.1.1 comment re Mr Newton’s 1665 “method of Tangents of Gregory…”, it’s time for a little scientific research on that one, as female friends over the years referred to me, Gregory of NZ, as the Master of Tangents 😃
Every day, so much to learn. Go the DOGE!
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Master of Tangents as in going off on a tangent?
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Change “antivax” to anti-Covid-vax, then all is fine with the above.
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Musk has contravened the society’s code of conduct including propagating unfounded conspiracy theories, hardly scientific behavior ?.
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What unfounded conspiracy theories?
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You, of course, wouldn’t agree:
The 2020 stolen election ( why isn’t Trump starting an investigation ?)
The great replacement myth
The ASAID myth
Etc
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Your examples seem to have little to do with science.
Try again.
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Which is why the RS is concerned. Musk seems to have little regard for the facts.
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What facts?
You mean that Trump 2.0 has been in government for three weeks and he hasn’t called an officially labelled investigation into election fraud yet? He only put radioactively hot people in nearly every position of power and called for paper ballots, a single day of voting and voter ID.
https://theprint.in/politics/trumps-support-for-paper-ballots-in-modis-presence-gives-ammunition-to-opposition/2498482/
You have nothing, but thanks for turning up to show that.
PS: The Royal Society contravenes it’s own Code of Conduct — they bully, namecall, sit silently by as scientists are sacked and people trash the Tenets of Science. They are the unprincipled hypocrites you are looking for…
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Where’s your evidence for the stolen election ??, Donald’s had 4 years and only repeated claims without any intention to enquire. But at least you’re consistent in that you apply the same level of confirmation bias to politics as you do to science.
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@ Miasma”Where’s your evidence for the stolen election ??,”
Try as they may those who supported and still do support the “stolen election” have as yet been unable to find any proof’ Lots of so called facts all of which were thrown out as being unproven. That’s a fact that is seldom stated
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Miasma, — where’s your evidence the elections were honest? There isn’t any, because the Democrats vote against every kind of clean election they can. It’s a fact the Dems always choose the option that allows the least accountability. No Voter ID. Yes to electronic machines. Yes to illegal citizens. No to cleaning up the rolls. etc etc The Democrats depend on cheating or they wouldn’t work so hard to allow it at every step.
Furthermore, Democrat states take days or weeks to count votes (despite the electronic machines) and after the fact they refused to hand over the machines or the ballots for checking. US postal workers were even told to backdate date-stamps.
Then there was this:
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“facts”? According to whom? What are you calling “facts”? Factoids are not facts.
“Fact checkers” are being exposed for what they were actually intended to be, i.e. propaganda tools.
What you’re saying is projection.
Obviously you have little regard for simple facts like the fact that you cannot build financial, media, and engineering empires with little regard for the facts.
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Sorry, I’m a little older then most, but, there were electric cars prior to musk. Mercedes and BMW I believe have had them, in the Ford museum in Pontiac Michigan. Both were from the 1800′ s. For something more recent, scientific America published articles by black and decker, an old tool manufacturer about the electric car they designed. Powered by batteries and a basically a lawnmower engine to charge it up while driving from the 1970′ s. Plus there were others from France and England. Those cars all failed because of the lack of strength of the motors. Very weak until the introduction of super magnets, and and a redesign of the navy electric motors to reduce sparking in volatile atmospheres. But that was the 1950’s, where the redesign of motors took place.
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Jim — that’s true, but I did say “brought electric cars to the world”.
Wasn’t Musk the first to mass produce them?
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“Your examples seem to have little to do with science.”
For them, the primary utility of science is politics.
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USA presidential elections popular vote
Year Republican Democrats
2004 62040610 59028444
2008 59948323 69498516
2012 60933504 65915795
2016 62984828 65853514
2020 74223975 81283501
2024 77302580 75017613
Does something odd strike you for 2020?
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Not really… those extra 25million voters are the ‘silent majority’ who suddenly felt the urge to vote for once in their life, then retired to ignore politics once again. It happens once in a lifetime in every country……that doesn’t have voter ID!
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FWIW – another view
“Now This Is Just Stupid”
“Anthony Fauci, by the way, is also a fellow at the Royal Society. His work only killed tens of millions of people and ruined the lives of many more, so nothing objectionable there. ”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/18/now-this-is-just-stupid-n3799950
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There are now 19 US states Attorneys Generals that are looking into prosecuting Fauci. They’ve combined together to do this.
It’s really happening. No joke.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/02/18/19-state-attorneys-general-signal-intent-to-prosecute-fauci-n4937109
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/state-attorneys-general-hint-at-criminal-charges-for-fauci-despite-bidens-pardon-cmc/
https://san.com/cc/state-ags-seek-investigation-of-dr-faucis-role-in-covid-19-pandemic/
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“If he wanted to set up a Society of Scientists — ones who care about the scientific method, he could do it tomorrow.” – maybe he should…the world needs something like that.
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Nothing would do more damage to the credibility of the Royal Society than to eject Elon Musk. And the fact that they were too stupid to realise it.
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The really funny thing is, of course, that the Alphabet People so cherished by the RS are the real Biology Deniers.
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Also science is not what it was.
“Between the years 1700 and 1850, the number of Fellows rose from approximately 100 to approximately 750.” That seems workable.
But science and populations exploded and now the number of members is 8,000. That’s a small town! So of course it is now political. And pointless.
I also remember Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel prize winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society in 2011 debating man made Global Warming with funny and caustic writer James Delingpole. That was absurd. It struck me how out of touch most scientists are. Can a geneticist really debate science with a particle physicist or a mathematician or a journalist? The Royal Society is looking like an exclusive social club, not a place where research is discussed.
In this debate I was appalled with Sir Paul Nurse’s invention of the immoral “Precautionary Principle” which would see him struck off as a medical doctor, applying potentially lethal cancer treatments when not certain of the cancer diagnosis. He won the argument by sheer intimidation, not logic. Delingpole was flabbergasted by the President of the Royal Society just made it up to win the argument.
I also remember the silly debate between Canberra Economist Ian Dennis and Sir Christopher Monckton. It was a farcical mismatch.
What I cannot remember is any public debate between scientists at any time. Why?
So the Royal Society joins the WMO, IPCC and in Australia ABC, BOM, CSIRO and all Universities in saying absolutely nothing which will threaten funding. And the chance of a knighthood.
And few Royal Society scientists have had the significance on world affairs of Elon Musk who is younger than most of them. His starlink alone is changing the lives of everyone on the planet. Or they could just be jealous.
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” Elon Musk who is younger than most of them.”
That’s amazing really, his best work may be yet to come! ..a grey-haired Musk stepping out of a blue telephone booth that wasn’t there a moment ago…
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Probably not. Most scientists/technologists tend to do their best work during their youth. Older meat computers (human brains) aren’t as fast and fresh as younger ones. They also tend to be get bogged down in ‘knowing’ too many things learned over the decades that they no longer question, whereas younger minds without all those decades of ‘wisdom’ cluttering up their thought process tend to be more willing to reject the status quo.
The wisdom of age is great for many pursuits, but not for making radical leaps in scientific understanding that blows up decades old ‘settled science’. That is a game for the young. The fact that a guy in his 50s is one of the youngest members of the Society is further proof that it is a sclerotic organization more concerned with enforcing the status quo rather than welcoming new and exciting disruptive thinkers.
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The sad reality is that decades of propaganda have led many people to believe that special interest groups such as the Royal Society, various national Academies of Science and motley “charity” bodies like Rockefeller Foundation are the good guys to follow and believe, when they are enemies of Science. It is they who have invented cancel culture, who have enlisted pal review, who have allowed journal editors to censor, who have encouraged belief above observation, who have dropped standards for the estimation of uncertainty.
Some of us are old enough to have seen it all happen. At various times I have participated in learned societies like the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, who decades ago elected me a Fellow, without me asking, because they had judged my work deserving of a mention. Today, the value of that award has changed. I am told that I cannot attach it to my name on letterheads or my C.V. unless I am a paid up financial member of the Institute, which has been infiltrated by officers expressing views quite at odds with mine while requiring my annual $$$.
I suspect that many readers here have also watched this dishonour happening to them. Geoff S
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Great post! Thank you!
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Seriously the Royal Society has been mucking about with history since at least around 1900 when India wanted to gain Independence.
They squashed Bal Gangahdar Tilak’s theory presented in “The Artic Home in the Vedas” which continues to prove correct after 100 years and jailed him twice for sedition just like Peter Navarro was jailed. To this day Tilak does not get the recognition he deserves. They also totally allowed or encouraged a mess surrounding the Pyramid Text of Unis by ignoring the history in text and concentrating on the high levels of meaning at the expense of the lower levels of meaning all to hide the fact that Unis made a very poor roll model for “The Devine Right of Kings to Rule”.
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