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>A previous PhD research project at Cardiff on the danger of genetically manipulated organisms also ran into Jewish conspiracy theories when fringe ideas were rejected. Ethnographic research revealed that a casual, ‘matter-of-fact’, conversation can be held over dinner in certain fringe organizations about Einstein’s one-time support for Israel leading the large number of Jews in modern physics to support relativity against all opposition. This is an uncomfortable echo of the ‘Jewish physics’ notions of the Nazis.[35] We wrote to a number of senior mainstream physicists asking if this kind of accusation ever reached their ears but they told us that this was no part of day-to-day physics nor had they ever heard of such things. Clearly this kind of idea violates the Mertonian norm of ‘universality’ and this might be said to distinguish at least a proportion of the group from the socio-cognitive activity of mainstream science. We will see that ‘norm-violation’ is one of our demarcation characteristics. But since much of the fringe does adhere to the Mertonian and other typically scientific norms, and since a proportion of the mainstream violates the norms, norm violation will be a useful criterion for policy-makers on only rare and specific occasions.[36]

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no anon, you can't. don't defend marrying women who are much younger than you. that's trump level

Sad!