The name of the American billionaire, which is now part of the president’s administration Donald Trump, continues to appear as a member of the Royal Society on the website of the institution.
The Scientific Academy, founded in 1660, did not mention the name of the tycoon in the text after the institution’s meeting, which has about 1,800 members, including 85 winners of the Nobel Prizeand the one belonging eminences such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
“Concern was expressed about the fate of colleagues in the United States that, as reported, face the perspective of lose their jobs in the midst of threats of radical cuts in research financing“, The institution said in relation to Monday’s meeting.
“The more than 150 members who attended the meeting agreed on the need for society to intensify its efforts to defend science and scientists at a time when they are threatened as never before, ”added the statement.
A letter, signed by more than 3,400 scientists and published in February, requested the expulsion of the Royal Society of Muskowner of X, Space X and Tesla, admitted in 2018 for their work in the spatial and electric vehicles.
Musk is widely considered as One of the most active fake news diffusers in X, According to Stephen Curry, Emeritus Professor of Structural Biology at Imperial College in London and author of the letter.
The letter claimed that the 53 -year -old billionaire used his own X account for Disseminate falsehoods or inaccurate statements about COVID, vaccines and heart problems.
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The signatories believe that the situation is more serious due to New Musk position as head of the efficiency department Government of the United States (Doge).
Geoffrey Hinton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024 And considered one of the AI parents, he said on March 2 in his account X his support for the expulsion of Musk.
“Not because it sells conspiracy theories and makes Nazi greetings, but for the enormous damage to scientific institutions in the United States ”Hinton said.
Musk responded on Monday, March 3 in X, noting that only to the “dumb, cowards and insecure care about prizes and memberships ”qualifying Hinton’s comments as ignorant, cruel and false.