"Having him in the Royal Society seemed such a contradiction of all the values of the Royal Society. And I didn’t really want to have anything to do with it.” Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... - ThreadSky

doctoroxford.com • 142 days ago

"Having him in the Royal Society seemed such a contradiction of all the values of the Royal Society. And I didn’t really want to have anything to do with it.”

Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/25/oxford-scientist-resigns-from-royal-society-over-elon-musks-continuing-fellowship

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briandolan.bsky.social•142 days ago

Deep respect for Prof Bishop and disdain for the Royal Society here Rachel. It's little wonder younger people in particular are losing faith in institutions like the RS as they hide behind 'rules' rather than doing what's morally right and should have been faced some time ago.

epicurious.bsky.social•142 days ago

What has the man actually done, other than buy up the ideas of clever people and wangle obscene amounts of government money? Perhaps his greatest achievement is convincing others of his supposed genius.