What if Albert Einstein hadn't been a Zionist?

What if Albert Einstein hadn't been a Zionist? by No-Fruit-4493 in HistoricalWhatIf [–]No-Fruit-4493[S] -3 points 3 days ago It's an excellent theory, and it is the best theory available to explain gravity. However, it's still just a theory. To draw an analogy, Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was very popular with the authorities, because it provided a very systematic theoretical formulation for the Universe that could effectively replace the Ptolemaic System. Galileo was condemned by the Holy Inquisition not because he supported the Copernican System -- which the authorities were still ambivalent about -- but because he was a strict empiricist who rejected the concept of theory itself. Newton, shrewd politician that he was -- he became Master of the Mint, after all -- was quite willing and able to fulfill what the authorities demanded. Similarly, is it so inconceivable that Einstein's political significance has something to do with a certain unwillingness to accept flaws in the Theory of Relativity, and an inclination to reject evidence inconsistent with it? Do you really believe scientists are totally immune from political influences, now, or in the past?