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Einstein in later papers apologized to Newton... only to Newton:

“Newton, forgive me,” You found the only way which, in your age, was just about possible for a man of highest thought and creative power.”.

-that's all you need to know.

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Newton’s publications ran absolute rings around the plagiarised, non-peer reviewed, mistake-ridden papers by Einstein.

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Cosmic Jungian synchronicity! Just yesterday was wondering exactly how my life has been improved by High Priest Albert One Stone's scribblings and theorizing. Surely in many ways that I am too unschooled to even notice. Hype has been a thing for a long time.

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As an EE, I took a course on special relativity and quantum mechanics in college. No practical use but it was one of the best courses I’ve ever taken -because after that I was like “OK whatever it is I’ll figure it out”.

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Nice piece Briggs. Funny and informative. I don't normally cite Confucius, who I suspect would have a decent h-index if it was tracked but there is one of his sayings that has been kicking around my mind and seems apposite. 'In a virtuously led country a man ought to be ashamed of poverty. In a viciously led country a man ought to be ashamed of wealth.' My humble adaptation, please cite I am applying for a position as a dissident Right internet troll and citation count will be considered, 'In a truth-oriented scientific community a high citation count ought to be a matter of pride. In The Science a high citation count ought to be a matter of shame.'

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Agreeing with someone - citations - has never been a hallmark of SCIENCE but every bit of scientism. Being ORIGINAL and right is rare, which is why we have not only papermill-parrots at indoctrination institutions but EVERYWHERE. Brandon, Lindsay, Mitch, Kamala & Co. being the epitome of the inverted pyramid being toppled by THE TRUTH before our very eyes.

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In a perfect world, Mr. Briggs, there would already be the Briggs Medal and statues of you standing before the great halls of elite academia for your prowess in routinely generating gems like this. We who are laughing our asses off -- we salute you!

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The world's greatest ever scientist is Greta Thunberg!

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You have stolen my morning with your empty words! All you do is joke, joke, joke! Shame on you!

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LOL!!!

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Hahahahahahaha…. Good one.

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Journal articles are a comorbidity for graduate student expirations.

With all this writing going on, who has time for actual research? Not these 3+ digit h-index people.

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The system erected by crooks in order to being abused is fulfilling exactly for what it has been designed for - never mind the pristine pretext under which is was sold to those wanting to join THE PONZI SCHEME of extracting the most FIAT CURRENCY/PRESTIGE from GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION.

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Well, Socrates and Diogenes have no h-index altogether – for obvious reasons.

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You also forgot those situations where a groups of scientists will create their own sub-niche journal and all just cite each other to gain easy citations.

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Please note: it is Newtonian physics that proves beyond any doubt that airliners could not possibly have been used as weapons on 9/11/2001

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For optimal clarity people really should be using w-index

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"the amazingness of scientists" 🤣

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Just proves what we know about Capitalism vs Communism - profit motive wins.

Poor Lysenko . He just wanted to live.

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Wanting to live can be a real weakness.

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Not as weak as selling out for just money.

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The science, she getting faker and gayer.

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Thanks for posting this, Briggs. h-index is such a racket. One site that only uses (pinky finger raised) peer-reviewed journals pegs me with an h-index of ten. Another deigns to include conference papers, which doubles my h-index to around 20. Yet another further includes patents which doubles me yet again to an h-index around 40. That's a factor of four variation in what is supposed to be an objective measure of research quality.

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Geez, My Q.I. rating is too low to make an intelligent comment. Newton/Calculus. hope this helps.

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Steve Kirsch has mentioned the academic rating as a criteria in whom he would accept to debate against in his covid challenges. I wondered if he was being ironic?

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Ah, Kirsch, the rich guy who’s a veritable jack-of-all-trades and master of, well, electrical engineering. It's quite the spectacle, watching him venture into the realm of research with the finesse of a bull in a china shop. The man's foray into research is akin to a chef trying to perform open-heart surgery. He has zero training in research and statistical methods that much is obvious. His poor quality work casts doubt on all the legitimate work being done by credible scientists. What a pity.

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I guess the higher it is the more indoctrinated blind idiot the debater would be so maybe not a bad approach.

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I'll pay you 500 thousand dollars if you agree with me to go on stage and talk about Steve Kirsch.

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"Scientists with outstanding and highly cited papers on new discoveries or inventions but few in numbers can not have high h-index. For example, Albert Einstein has h-index of 4 or 5 despite being acknowledged globally as an outstanding Physicist. Harry Kroto is a Nobel laureate in chemistry who won the Nobel award with his single publication in 1985 despite his position at 264th in global chemist list base upon h-index."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025721/

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Don't mean to brag... but my h-index is better than Einstein's.

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