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mellosouls on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: We're Incentivizing Bad Science

JJ Thompson was one of the great scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and certainly famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson

RcouF1uZ4gsC on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

Completely agree about JJ Thomson. Just happy to hear it was he who said it and not a that it was a quote by someone else falsely attributed to JJ Thomson because he is famous.

mellosouls on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

Ah, I see - thanks for the clarification.

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