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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They've just confirmed they're a willful Nazi Bar.
Fuck you nazi collaborating assholes.
Kick the fucker out.
Royal Society is now a fascist org.
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?
science?? BURN THE HEATHEN!
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.
Fucking pussies
Lol, my inner voice exactly
I wonder why they consider an investigation likely to be harmful?
What the fuck is going on in the Royal Academy?
Nine times out of ten it's kid fucking
Money.
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
The Royal Society resides in London, so Musk can't make frivolous charges like in USA.
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
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.
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
Fair enough, thanks for the reminder.
We just need to start calling him "Royal society fellow Musk" everywhere...
That's fine, I just assume anyone who doesn't explicitly leave the society is also a Nazi
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.
Nazis, got it.
Nazi scum.
Royal Society: "We grant you a seat in this society but we do not grant you the title of royalty."
Elon: "This is outrageous! That's unfair!"
How can you be in the society and not be a royal?
Pussies.
Membership confers little, and offers the ability to attend afaiu. He ain't attending anything anyway. He isn't voting on boards/leadership. He can, and is, being ignored rather than risk the wrath. Because plenty of other society members should also be fucking kicked out too, but if they only do one...
The real fix is likely to be a fixed term membership. Every five years you need reapproval
That little irregular melanom is not doing anything. Why bother cutting it out? It is growing a bit every year, but its not like the cancer spread yet, is it?