>> To try and shame people not to cite or use scholarly work from people with controversy sourrounding them is sinister in its very nature. It is falling to mob

>> To try and shame people not to cite or use scholarly work from people with controversy sourrounding them is sinister in its very nature. It is falling to mob rule instead of logic and reason. > Then think of how much scientific inquiry has been discouraged because people don't want to work under those conditions. That's an entirely different issue. What we're talking about here is work that exists, but is not cited due to it's authorship. If Adolf Hitler himself had correctly proven Goldbach's Conjecture, is the proof itself so inseparable from his other actions that it should be rejected with them?