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>>dale_h+(OP)
I found it hard to reconcile his charming and witty comic strips with some of the ugly things he wrote elsewhere. I would never usually throw a book away, but I made an exception for one of his books, because I didn't want anyone to see it on my bookshelf and I didn't want to give to anyone else.

>>hermit+US
People aren’t just one thing. They can be right about one thing and wrong about other things.

>>2muchc+Ue1
We already know that.

The more interesting question is: what do we do with the art of people who were revealed to be terrible? I first saw people wrestle with this idea for Michael Jackson and recently it has been a big issue related to Kanye West.

>>thephy+Oh1
Art is relatively low stakes. We can always create more art. You should increase the stakes as a thought experiment.

The person who solved global warming/cancer/whatever turns out to be a terrible person? Should we throw away their work, and come to a different answer? Or wait a few generations so people forget and come to the same answer again but the people involved are “pure”?

>>2muchc+Ol1
Factual work remains true regardless of who discovered it. If they actually found the solution to global warming or cancer, then fine. It remains true and useful regardless of the person. But you might want to consider how to not pay them royalties for it.

The problem with unethical behavior in sciences is that you have to check - which you should be doing anyway, but once someone has been exposed as a fraud the community as a whole needs to go back and clean out all the fraud by checking all their work. Unethical behavior in someone's personal life doesn't necessarily invalidate that.

Although I don't see many people talking about ReiserFS these days.