Oxford scientist resigns from the Royal Society over Elon Musk's continuing fellowship [View all]
(Cross-posted from the UK forum):
A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship.
Prof Dorothy Bishop, emeritus professor of developmental neuropsychology and a leading expert on children’s communication disorders, said she handed back her fellowship of the Royal Society last week....
“I just started to think, you know, the Royal Society seemed to be set up to make it very, very difficult to ever get somebody to resign or to actually get thrown out, and given all I know about Musk, it felt grubby, to be honest,” she said.
“It just felt 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.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/oxford-scientist-resigns-from-royal-society-over-elon-musk-s-continuing-fellowship/ar-AA1uJrys
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