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To: BenLurkin

is there ANYTHING that Oxford “scientists” can’t be wrong about?

btw, “Oxford scientist” is an oxymoron ... Cambridge was the university that was the real scientific powerhouse back in the day, though in recent history, Cambridge is best known for producing Soviet spys ...

Oxford of course has given us “effective altruism”, the dressed up “philosophy” of “the means justifies the ends” that gave us the billion dollar thieves Sam Bankman-Fried, his family and his cohorts ...


56 posted on 08/24/2025 8:48:35 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman
btw, “Oxford scientist” is an oxymoron ... Cambridge was the university that was the real scientific powerhouse back in the day...

Yes, I thought the division was Oxford for the arts and humanities, Cambridge for the sciences (it was the home of Watson and Crick for instance).

64 posted on 08/24/2025 10:31:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: catnipman

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on X-ray crystallography.
Andrew Wiles - Received the Abel Prize in 2016 for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, recognized for his contributions to mathematics related to physics.
Peter J. Ratcliffe - Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019 for discoveries on how cells sense oxygen.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
Richard J. Roberts - Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for the discovery of split genes.
Sir John Gurdon - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 for his work on nuclear reprogramming.


70 posted on 08/24/2025 11:34:15 AM PDT by sopo
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