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Terrific. Maybe not the most alluring framing.

Could be titled "Hate Elon? OMFG would you have hated Edison! He was way worse!"

Scientists didn't start getting in the way of progress yesterday. It's a tradition:

When the dynamo prototype was finished, it operated so contrary to existing best-practice that Edison was mocked for it. John Tyndall — the physicist to whom discovery of the greenhouse effect is often attributed – wrote in the Journal of Gas Lighting, ‘It is difficult to adequately express the ludicrous inefficiency of the arrangement; but one thing is abundantly certain, and that is that the person who seriously proposed it was wholly destitute of a scientific knowledge of either electricity or the science of energy.’