# Most "prominent" SD-user ever disclosed?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 6, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-prominent-sd-user-ever-disclosed/960581 "2022-03-06T21:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-prominent-sd-user-ever-disclosed/960581/5 "2022-03-06T21:36:14Z")

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson ) has posted here:

> [@Newton a fraud?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newton-a-fraud/957280/25):
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> Read the whole thread. Just some observations… Newton’s “dot” notation for calculus is still used today in physics, just as he invoked it – to identify derivatives with respect time. Of course for all other applications of the calculus, we lean towards Leibniz’s more elegant notations. I’ve seen no study on scientists who have falsified data in support of what turned out to be a correct hypothesis. For all we know, it’s the majority of correct new ideas. You can imagine the thinking: “I’m q…

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