Far be it from me to call NDT uninformed. And granted I am getting my information from an anecdote told by the chair of my undergrad math department. But Newton was a huge deal with all the big journals of the time. He was working on Calculus independently from Leibnitz but was behind. He used his connections in the journals to suppress a lot of Leibnitz's work that overlapped with his until he could publish it.

That being said Newton was still crazy fucking smart and shaped the field of science. I was just trying to justify him sitting Judas' chair.