Worst Scientists

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>>8291332
CS.

>>8291332
Lysenko

We could probably add some recent outright frauds: Deepak Das and Marc Hauser.
Their impact was pretty limited.

Felisa Wolfe-Simon is another that comes to mind.

retractionwatch.com is very interesting

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>>8291356
>Felisa Wolfe-Simon
va va voom. I remember hearing about that arsenic life-form thing. Didn't know it was a qt that made it up.

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>>8291346
Computer Scientists are not scientists since Computer Science is not science. Don't let the name fool you, it's just for boosting the ego of people who can't into math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Thomas Midgley Jr. He invented chlorofluorocarbons AND leaded gasoline.

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did some important work on Paleogene shorebird cladistics and so one, but went completely off the rails when it comes to mesozoic origins of birds

>>8291530
>implying the word "science" boosts anyone's ego

The reason they call it Computer Science is because they couldn't find a better name.

>>8291536
Some men just want to see the world burn

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This fucking guy

>>8291536
> In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. This led him to devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his own death when he was entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.

>>8291803
>what are you gonna do, stab me?

>>8291530
>he thinks CS doesn't involve math
Durr what is differential security or rational computation or discrete math or graph theory or quantum computing durr

>>8291536
damn came here to post him

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Surprised nobody mentioned the fuckup-lord of medicine yet

>>8293382
>discrete math and graph theory belongs to cs
hahahaha computer "scientists" believe this

>>8293999
It doesn't belong to it but any self respecting CS major who at least has grad school ambitions will need to know those things