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Originally Posted by DryaUnda
...Wouldn't it be more practical to hire a scientist who Knew Too Much, rather than damn the hapless soul into a maximum security hobbit shire?
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A lot of them are patriots to one cause or another that would prevent them from being useful to you. An Irish patriot might do everything he could to overthrow the British rule of Ireland in every parallel. A medieval scientist or fundamentalist might not work for an organization that doesn't espouse his religion at every turn.
On the flip side, what is Francis Bacon going to do for you? He may have the raw intelligence to catch on to your little plan, but he's 700 years behind in science and quite possibly could never wrap his head around the priniciples of modern science. Worse is the unexceptional English gentlemen who happened to poke his nose around the wrong corner at the wrong time, and go back home and write everything down. It's too late to mind wipe him, but he's got nothing to recommend him that a hundred million high school dropouts back on Homeline don't have.