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Tony Porcaro's avatar

One of your historical dives into the world of charlatans and plagiarists should include the myths surrounding the life and work of Louis Pasteur, a figure whom you have all but ignored in your explorations; Pasteur was the Fauci of his day and became a leader in bringing the allopathic fraud of medicine to the world.

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in 2008 there was a very good British film, "Einstein and Eddington", which took place around WW1...

Sir Arthur Eddington was given Newton's Chair at Cambridge, he was a Quaker and a conscientious objector...

through observation and studying Einstein's papers, he began to question Newton's Law of Gravity, knowing this was the big thing Einstein was working on...

Max Planck brought Einstein back to Germany from Zurich with the promise of being funded while he did his work...

While back in Berlin, at Humboldt University, Einstein soon discovered many of his colleagues were not studying their respective subjects to gain knowledge, but to invent the most horrific weapons for the German military, including mustard and chlorine gas.

Horrified, Einstein told them off, and he was then banned from the University.

Planck helped Einstein, and was able to get his papers to Eddington, even though there was an embargo between Britain and Germany during WW1.

There was an eclipse, Cambridge sent Eddington and a colleague to South Africa to take photographs of it, and these photographs proved Einstein was correct, and it was at that point that Einstein became world famous. The curvature of space is real.

As far as Tesla goes, I have heard numerous outlandish claims that Tesla was from Venus or Mars, that he was some kind of sorcerer, etc.

When Tesla died, Hoover sent FBI agents and Trump's Uncle to Tesla's apt in Manhattan. Supposedly, Trump's Uncle found all the papers, etc., and convinced the ignorant FBI agents that they were worthless and meaningless, and managed to take them away, and supposedly nephew Donald and has seen them, as well as Richard Nixon.

I don't think there is any question that Newton practiced alchemy on the side. Was he successful? I really doubt it.

Watching an apple fall from a tree and hey presto--gravity! is of course a tale for children...same as George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

In conclusion, I think it is worthwhile to question everything, including Tesla. But I for one am very disappointed, to say the least, with all the personal and professional attacks against Albert Einstein, who was, imo, one of the brightest minds this world has ever known, and a great humanitarian and an exceptional representative of the Jewish People, of which I am very proudly one.

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