Einstein: Right Again!

Every time I see another headline about Einstein being right again, I want to scream. This news update from New Scientist was the latest. Notice that it's not "Relativity proved right again". The emphasis is always on the main, Einstein, and not the Theory of Relativity that is associated with him. Scientific publications like New Scientist will trumpet it first and then mainstream media outlets will join in the apotheosis that has been in full swing for almost one hundred years now.

In the early part of the twentieth century, Relativity (both Special and General) was certainly coming whether Einstein was there or not. Other mathematicians and scientists had laid the groundwork: Riemann, Hilbert, Lorenz, Poincaré and others. However, Einstein was first to publish and so deserves the credit according to the general consensus. Not all agree of course and controversy has dogged Einstein for the past century. How did this obscure patent clerk rise so suddenly from anonymity to worldwide acclaim? Christopher Jon Bjerknes in his book THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF SAINT EINSTEIN is scathing in his attack on Einstein as a fraud and a product of Jewish propaganda. I did start ready this book but its over 2500 pages and is badly written.

I should try to read this book again but Bjerkness is not the only one to accuse Einstein of plagiarism. There are plenty of others but I don't want to go into that in this post. I'll accept for now that Einstein did publish first and deserves major credit for the theory. What irks me is that nobody else ever seems to get any credit as the focus is always on the man. The name Einstein has been burnt into the brains of most of humanity so that phrases like "I'm no Einstein but ... " have come to permeate the language, the English language at least. An industry has sprung up around his name and his image. A century of perception management has created a towering, God-like figure who may well have feet of clay. Einstein seems to 99% hype and perhaps 1% substance.

The same propaganda has been applied to Freud, the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. However, Frederick Crews in his book "Freud: the Making of an Illusion" does a good job of exposing the hype surrounding him. In the twentieth century, the Jewish control of mainstream media purposefully and effectively set out to portray Einstein and Freud as intellectual Jewish giants for whom, although this was only implied, there was no equivalent amongst the Gentiles. Of course compared to Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud looks lilliputian in the eyes of many and indeed the latter's stature has diminished over the years while the former's has grown. Einstein still remains on his pedestal for now. Many would claim that the bust of Nikola Tesla deserves to be mounted on that pedestal but that's another story.

The takeaway here is that, as always, nothing is what it seems. The question to be asked is: Does Albert Einstein deserve the accolade of Greatest Scientist of the Twentieth Century? How much is he a product of mainstream media hype? There are no ready answers to either question but merely by asking these questions a beginning has been made in doubting what we take for granted about the world and its history.