• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    The fact that he was even admitted, when he had literally no accomplishments to justify it, proves that the entire Society is just a scam.

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    write them an email https://royalsociety.org/about-us/contact-us/

    looks like you guys just damaged yourselves by not taking disciplinary action against Musk. whilst I have nothing to do with you, you guys should know better than to sympathise with Nazis. It makes you the same as them. The US is broken and you have the chance to stand on the right side of history or the wrong side of history, and you will be judged by your actions. and science will suffer your actions/inaction. sort it out or are you just a bunch of Nazi cowards?

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    but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

    Cowardly miserable fucks.

    Do you mean more harm to your wallets?

    Just another “steal-ionnaire trots off scott free” story I guess…

    🤡 🤷‍♂️ 🖕 🖕

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    “The view of council is that making judgments on the acceptability of the views and actions of fellows, particularly those that might be regarded as political, could do more harm than good to the society and the cause of science in general. Council believes that disciplinary proceedings should not be initiated on such grounds,” Smith wrote.”

    So Nazi salute is called political views nowadays? I think people should quit the society en masse.

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    I wonder why they consider an investigation likely to be harmful?
    What the fuck is going on in the Royal Academy?

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      More likely they know that Musk has a well-documented habit of frivolous litigation and spreading lies about anyone that gets under his skin. They’ve decided it’s not worth the fight

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        The Royal Society resides in London, so Musk can’t make frivolous charges like in USA.

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          The cave diver Vernon Unsworth lived in Thailand, so Musk just tried to spread the rumour that he was a paedophile instead. And unfortunately Musk now has a bigger following and platform than ever

          To be clear I don’t necessarily agree with the Society’s decision. I just think there is a pretty obvious possible motive without the Society having skeletons in the closet, regardless of whether it actually does or not

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            I never took it as an accusation, more of an insult. I honestly don’t remember if he doubled down or not, but I do seem to recall he backed off after threats to sue. Dangerous insult to use. - if you call someone an asshole, it’s pretty clear it’s hyperbole. Pedophile, not so much.

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              He doubled down enough to hire a PI to investigate Unsworth and to tell Buzzfeed that they were “defending a child rapist” when they approached him for a comment, which is doubling down enough for me. He did claim it was all jokes and insults when Unsworth (unsuccessfully) tried to sue him for defamation

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    We just need to start calling him “Royal society fellow Musk” everywhere…

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    Likely to be harmful? More harmful than the shit bag backing Nazis across the fucking world? We’re all just watching the 4th Reich (which is probably more like the 6th in actuality) gain power and doing nothing but saying “well, this might hurt the feelings of the rich, so”

    Fucking disgraceful. Watch in horror as all institutions buckle under the weight of the phattest fucking incel to ever exist.