[thaumasiotes]

> If anything, situations like this should actually help your career—what better signal you’ve found a good vein of research?

How'd it go for Charles Murray?

[drb91]

Not the same situation—he lost status on the strength of his work.

[fjsolwmv]

He had a long and successful career under the patronage of eugenicists and scientific racists who hung on to obsolete ideas after their time had past.

[maehwasu]

I'm not sure that knee-jerkingly smearing him (by association) as a racist eugenicist quite disproves the point that tenure is not protection from misguided attacks.

[danharaj]

Shockingly, very few things protect you from people saying bad things about you on the Internet.

[angrow]

No need to turn to his associations for evidence, you're free to read his work and judge for yourself.

[Viliam1234]

The whole point of character assassination is to make people less likely to actually read it.

[drb91]

You can read his work and evaluate for yourself.