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Honestly I found this comment to be useful. Supporting astrology and creationism is a pretty damning set of facts about someone.

• dang 7y ago
  It's not a useful or interesting representation of Feyerabend. The internet habit of reducing everything to its most sensational detail, and cleansing it of all context, for damning purposes, is a bad one. It's what that HN guideline is intended to cover.
  • QuesnayJr 7y ago
    There's a flipside, where certain writers get to be read with infinite charity, while everyone else has to take their lumps. Feyerabend really did make that argument -- it's right there in black-and-white in "Against Method". But since he's an "important thinker", we have to read him with more care than he wrote with. "Against Method" is a fun book, and I enjoyed it when I read it back when the stakes didn't seem so high. But he chose to write a fun book rather than a serious one, and he can't complain when people take him seriously.
• PaulDavisThe1st 7y ago
  Maybe if you read a little more about why he "supported" them, you'd find that even more useful?