[srean]

... and someone who would be very difficult to "out asshole" or to out do in male chauvinism.

Those are criticism on personality, on the technical side it took the community a long time to undo the damage of promoting non robust parametric statistics. But this much is certain he pulled statistics into the realms of math -- no mean feat.

[RA_Fisher]

That's true and it's well documented. I think E.T. Jaynes gives a poigntent reflection in his Theory of Probability.