[shimonabi]

He was a con artist with a Nobel Prize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

[Xelynega]

It's interesting having this video be my introduction to Feynman, then seeing how people talk about his personality.

She brings up points that don't seem easy to dispute, yet all of the comments here seem to be praise for the man outside of just his achievements.

[ballooney]

This website is 99% the sort of not especially socialised young men who for various psychological insecurities are prone to the sort of hero-worship that she refers to in the video.

[bsza]

Every person is a con artist if you’re cynical enough.

[dinkumthinkum]

As I wrote in a comment about the same person, be careful, she is a far-leftist that regularly pushes a "particular" agenda in her entertaining videos about physics and life as a phd student.

[DiogenesKynikos]

A "con artist" does not invent the action formulation of quantum field theory.

[nmz]

Nope

https://freakonomics.com/the-curious-brilliant-vanishing-mr-...