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by fjsolwmv 2799 days ago
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.
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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.
Shockingly, very few things protect you from people saying bad things about you on the Internet.
No need to turn to his associations for evidence, you're free to read his work and judge for yourself.
The whole point of character assassination is to make people less likely to actually read it.
You can read his work and evaluate for yourself.