{"id":18009,"date":"2025-03-07T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/it-would-be-seen-as-political-why-the-royal-society-is-torn-over-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:37:29","slug":"it-would-be-seen-as-political-why-the-royal-society-is-torn-over-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/it-would-be-seen-as-political-why-the-royal-society-is-torn-over-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It would be seen as political\u2019: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake<\/p>\n<p>It is a 365-year-old institution revered the world over, with past members including luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Dorothy Hodgkin. But now a row over a billionaire maverick has thrown the Royal Society into crisis, splintering the fellowship and raising existential questions about its role in society.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of scientists have called for the academy to investigate the conduct of Elon Musk \u2013 who was elected a fellow in 2018 \u2013 resulting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/03\/elon-musk-royal-society-fellowship-survives-fractious-members-meeting\">passionate debate<\/a> at a meeting of the scientific body on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/mar\/07\/it-would-be-seen-as-political-why-the-royal-society-is-torn-over-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d9b80444996f24479bbaf1c1bee0543af2aa2531\/0_0_6747_4048\/master\/6747.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6f80fba4dc4d813a24feed8558ed7ad\" title=\"\u2018It would be seen as political\u2019: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk\" \/>Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake<br \/>\nIt is a 365-year-old institution revered the world over, with past members including luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Dorothy Hodgkin. But now a row over a billionaire maverick has thrown the Royal Society into crisis, splintering the fellowship and raising existential questions about its role in society.<br \/>\nA growing number of scientists have called for the academy to investigate the conduct of Elon Musk \u2013 who was elected a fellow in 2018 \u2013 resulting in a passionate debate at a meeting of the scientific body on Monday evening. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake It is a 365-year-old institution revered the world over, with past members including luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Dorothy Hodgkin. But now a row over a billionaire maverick has thrown the Royal Society &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/it-would-be-seen-as-political-why-the-royal-society-is-torn-over-elon-musk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It would be seen as political\u2019: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}