Einsteinians Mark Srednicki and Joseph Polchinski were given a $1.32 million grant to say whether Einstein was wrong: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2013/01382...oning-einstein

They found the joke both amusing and profitable, took the money and said that Einstein was not wrong:

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