I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny. Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!" NOPE.https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 …
What about Gajdusek? Is this about women? Or Is this a “letting reprehensible behavior slide whilst turning a blind eye” because it was easier to reconcile with their intellectual work, and prestige brought to institution and colleagues? This isn’t a new phenomenon.