What would a major newspaper do if they were discussing the views of a famous scientist who went off the rails about something unrelated to their profession? Take Lynn Margulis, for example, rightly renowned for promulgating (but not inventing) the idea that mitochondria within cells are actually the remnants of bacteria, showing an ancient event in which one organism engulfed another. That was a major advance in understanding cells, and a remarkable twist in our understanding of evolution.
Yet Margulis was also a 9/11 conspiracy theorist (see also here), suggesting that the plane strikes and downing of the World Trade Center (through setting of incendiaries in the structure!) represented a conspiracy by the U.S. government to give us a justification to go after Muslims.
Would she get a pass from the press because of her previous and acclaimed work? I doubt it.
But Thomas Wolfe is getting that kind of pass—not everywhere…
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