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Alan Turing was a scientist, played a part in helping end WWII and ... wasn't treated kindly (I'll leave it at that). Perhaps in the 50s there was more respect
by Beldin 7y ago
Alan Turing was a scientist, played a part in helping end WWII and ... wasn't treated kindly (I'll leave it at that).
Perhaps in the 50s there was more respect for authority figures than there is nowadays. I strongly doubt there was more than that though.
- jl2718 7y agoNeither was Issac Newton. But the public listened to them most intently when they said something that they knew would get them in trouble. Every other ‘scientist’ of the day that spent their lives on elaborate self-serving proofs of their institution’s dogma, is long gone and completely forgotten. We are right to be suspicious of these people.