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Who Smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
- pinewurst 6y ago(2014) but well worth the repost
- olooney 6y ago500 Error for me.
- notadog 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20200604154641/http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200604154641/http://blog.nucle...
- Cymen 6y agoArchive.org URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20200604154641/http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200604154641/http://blog.nucle...
- generationP 6y agoArchive link: https://archive.is/nK4RS https://archive.is/nK4RS
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- acqq 6y ago55 comments in 2014 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982
- kurthr 6y agoYes, it may well have been his ex-wife... that was my guess when I read the headline.
- rurban 6y agoEsp. his 2nd wife from Boise, if I remember correctly. An old article which I remember well. He had better luck with his other two wife's.
- JRKrause 6y ago"it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos." I find it hard to imagine a world where the eccentric behaviors and personal lives of practicing scientists would receive newspaper coverage.
- dralley 6y agoIf I had to listen to bongos every day, I might have agreed with her about the "cruelty" of it :)
- smegger001 6y agoTo play devils advocate here, this was at a time before to no-fault divorce. For a woman to divorce her husband she was forced to show just cause, such as abandonment, insanity, adultery or cruelty. Cruelty is the easiest to claim. he obviously was not insane, he had not abandoned her for a extended period or to the best of my knowledge been in a affair to she would have to claim cruelty true or not to leave.
- leephillips 6y agoYes, this was quite routine.
- stcredzero 6y agoI find it hard to imagine a world where the eccentric behaviors and personal lives of practicing scientists would receive newspaper coverage. Really? Such tactics are all over the media nowadays. Read Manufacturing Consent then look for all of the tactics in the western "propaganda model" of operation updated for 2020. The news has never been subtle about this sort of manipulation since at least the 80's. By comparison, what I see nowadays, it seems like journalists think everyone's a mental toddler. Look for emotional language in articles. Then count up the hard facts. There's an inverse relationship. It's not supposed to be like this!
- thanatropism 6y agoSomehow I read "Richard Stallman". Kept on thinking so until I managed to open the archive.org URL.
- snvzz 6y agoIt's an understandable mistake[0]. [0]: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
- xenocyon 6y agoThis is extremely speculative.
- sudoaza 6y agoWouldn't surprise me if Feynman was at least sympathetic to communism, at least to anarchism for sure, on some of the lectures when he talks about his father teaching him about equality and the disdain for prizes and titles.
- Koshkin 6y agoJust to make it clear: communism and anarchism have nothing in common, and having them mixed in one sentence is just making verbal noise.
- sudoaza 6y agoThe end goal of communism is to end with class hierarchy and the state, regardless of the most well known implementation attempts.
- jandrese 6y agoI'm not sure if he was not so much sympathetic to communism as skeptical of capitalism. At least that's the impression I got from reading his books. He's not a guy who was too concerned with money and didn't appear to have a high regard for people who do. He was much more interested in having experiences. The top-down government model of communism wouldn't be a fit for him either, he was much too free wheeling for that. Anarchism would be a bit closer but almost certainly too radical for someone not that concerned with politics. Libertarianism might have been the best fit, but only the on-paper kind, not the real life kind.
- vkou 6y agoHe doesn't exactly paint a flattering account of his social self in his autobiographies - mostly in his interactions with service staff.
- DubiousPusher 6y agoYeah and he's not exactly silent about his desire or attempts to womanize. IDK why it's so hard to like a dude, respect his work and love his writing yet simultaneously understand he's a bit of a dirt bag.
- onemoresoop 6y agoHe possibly was a narcissist simply looking for narcissistic supply. Or let's say high on this particular trait. These people are very successful and are attracted to the limelight and a lot of the times are inspiring as well because in their need to gratify themselves and their values they actually do achieve a great deal of things. However, the close ones may be neglected though, as they no longer posses narcissistic supply and their own needs interfere with the narcissist's pursuit, which pursuit is very selfish in nature. A lot of unsuspecting people are more or less on this spectrum but the fame aspect of them makes them more of assholes to the close friends and family. Passionate people who get some limelight may steer on this path. Passionate and humble people don't get their dopamine from other's or they do but to a much lesser extent. They don't crave it as much as the former. All things said, I don't think Feynman should be judged on his moral values, he never claimed he was a priest or a monk, he loved life and gratification. He was inspiring to others and that is what matters. I found Richard Feynman very inspiring and I still do.
- jandrese 6y agoSome of his own writings stray deeply into redpill territory when talking about women. Distasteful today, but hardly out of line for the era. Had he lived he would have been the subject of many #metoo anecdotes, at least if his autobiographies are accurate.
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- benjohnson 6y agoI suspect form the viewpoint of the F.B.I. that it's not only someone's allegiance that is important, but how verifiable that allegiance is. Given that the most clever and intelligent among us could be better prepared for subterfuge, it perhaps makes the question of "Is Feynman trustworthy?" rather difficult.
- addHocker 6y agoThe real person is dead for years, but the science santa clause could have inspired kids for years to come.