[FreedomPoster]

I really lament that we don’t have a Feynman around. I really thing he would be horrified by what has gone on in this area, and at the damage this has done to science and the public perception thereof.

[FreedomPoster]

think = think

That’s what I get for making insomnia posts.

[FredZarguna]

Small world: My office in Lauritsen Lab was not very far from Feynman's, although he was not very active by then. In those days Goodstein was in the Sloan Annex. Feynman would still drop into Seminars, though, and pick up the topic — and ask questions — like he was still a twentysomething grad student instead of a sixtysomething year old.

I don't know whether Feynman would have involved himself publicly in the present discussion (although he would surely have had his opinions). For all of the colorful stories about him, he was not a controversialist. I do remember that he refused to sign a petition against the Vietnam War (this was before I was in grad school), and that a number of very famous scientists who had signed on were puzzled by his demurrals.

He was, above all, his own man.