Sunday, January 13, 2019

Too true

Unfortunately...

"The men who are so quick to defend his legacy and disregard his misogyny not only see themselves in him as the once nerdy science boy who was able to become a symbol of cool; in all likelihood, they have been complicit, at a minimum, in perpetuating the kinds of conduct that Feynman is guilty of."

~ Leila MacNeil

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-feynman-mcneill

Yikes :-(

"on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he flew into a violent rage, during which time he attacked her, threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture."

https://gizmodo.com/5916502/richard-feynmans-fbi-files-make-fascinating-reading

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