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From The New York Times (July 11, 1935):
He described relativity as "a beggar, wrapped in purple, whom ignorant people took for a king." In support of his statement he cited a number of experiments he had conducted, he said, as far back as 1896 on the cosmic ray. He has measured cosmic ray velocities from Antarus, he said, which he found to be fifty times greater than the speed of light, thus demolishing, he contended, one of the basic pillars of the structure of relativity, according to which there can be no speed greater than that of light.
Reading up on Tesla it seems he did not think much of relativity and said so...so perhaps that is why now they in my view try to discredit him.
Who would think politics in science.
Alex
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