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U.S. patents increased by 31 percent in fields common among Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany for America, according to Stanford economist Petra Moser. Their innovative influence rippled outward for generations, as the emigres attracted new researchers who then trained other up-and-comers. Anecdotal accounts suggest that the arrival of German Jewish emigres to America who were fleeing the Nazi regime in the 1930s revolutionized U.S. science and innovation.
But this claim has never been empirically confirmed until now, thanks to new research by a Stanford economist. Petra Moser, an assistant professor of economics at Stanford, found that the number of U.S. patents increased by 31 percent after 1933 in fields common among those who emigrated from Germany, according to her research paper. In fact, these scientists and inventors led a transformation of American innovation in the post-World War II period.
"German Jewish emigres had a huge effect on U.S. innovation," Moser said in an interview. "They helped increase the quality of research by training a new generation of American scientists, who then became productive researchers in their own rights."
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 16 2014, @12:26PM
Jews were not the majority of people who were persecuted in the holocaust. 3 million Poles were executed, 3 million Ukrainians, 3 million Russians, 1.5 million Gypsies, and many other communists, socialists, homosexuals, freemasons, evangelical Christians, mentally and physically disabled, and many other groups the Nazis considered undesirable or inferior [wikipedia.org]. In the United States the history of the holocaust has been largely written by Jews, so they have made it about them exclusively (most Americans are consequently unaware that many more people from other groups than Jews were killed) and they have used it effectively since to influence politics [amazon.com], particularly with respect to Israel.
This reads to me like another part of the same effort, to underscore in a different way how incredibly important Israel is to the United States, despite all other evidence to the contrary [uchicago.edu]. Curiously, it seems to be coming out at a time when Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, are on the verge of costing them the public opinion in the United States that they cannot afford to lose.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by evilviper on Saturday August 16 2014, @07:41PM
It's only when you broaden the definition to include other types of war deaths that the Jewish majority slink below the cutoff. Your own source makes the prominence of Jews clear from the start.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.