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Careful. Remember the best gig for scientific funding in the past was to sign up with the church.

It's like posting a wiki entry of those who have tenure at major universities and claiming it's because those people believe in universities.

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Newton and the others were faking it to get “funding”? I’ll assume you’re joking.

Indoctrination is a powerful thing. Perhaps they even believed or wanted to believe themselves.

It takes real effort to push back against the disinformation of the day.

These are people you and everyone else should be familiar with. Their beliefs are well documented. No need for “perhaps.” They’ve written eloquently about their beliefs and an intellectually curious, or merely open minded person, can benefit from exploring those thoughts and ideas. It’s not something to cower in fear of. When people who are more intelligent espouse strongly held beliefs that you don’t understand, that’s a good time to ask more questions rather than close your mind and stop reading.

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