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Sailer: “It’s unclear why Chetty’s study of inventors is entitled ‘Lost Einsteins’ rather than ‘Lost Edisons'”

December 8, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Steve Sailer writes:

“Lost Edisons.” Chetty, who sometimes seems not all that familiar with his adoptive country, appears to have gotten the European scientific theorist Albert Einstein (who, although he once worked in a patent office, was not much of an inventor) confused with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (whose name is on 1,093 U.S. patents).

Einstein, Edison… they both begin with “E”…

 

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