10 Geniuses Who Were Shockingly Horrible People
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When someone is remembered as a genius, little else about them as a person is made public. Why would we care that Einstein cheated on his wife like, all the time? The guy invented gravity, he was awesome!
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10. Bobby Fischer
9. Virginia Woolf
8. Richard Dawkins
7. Aristotle
6. Isaac Newton
5. Thomas Edison
4. Nikola Tesla
3. John Lennon
2. James Cameron
1. Henry Ford
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He left out something else that made Lennon despicable . Lennon also neglected his first son, Jullian from his previous marriage in favor of the child he had with Yoko, which left emotional scars that his son still carries today .
Don't forget... he used to beat Julian as well.
@@CaptainKirkDigglernot true
@@galaxy17gaming89 So he just beat his wife?
I have never seen a top 10 video with so many problems. This will be the first, and only video I watch on this channel.
P.S., Feminism poisons everything.
***** I don't even remember what this video was about. Apparently is was very sloppy. If it was done badly, what not tell other people about it, and save their time? Or, it might start a discussion about a particular thing that wasn't right. Time spent on something productive isn't wasted.
***** As long as it kills patriarchy I'm satisfied.
Edison killed an elephant too. And Louie LaPrince, the real father of moving pictures, disappeared from a train and Edison magically ends up with Louie’s inventions.
The elephant is the most known, I hadn't known he killed dogs too.
Thomas Edison didn't invent anything, he employed "Assistants" that invented things (like the incandescent light) then filed the patents under his name thus taking full credit for them.
US people often claim Edison invented the incandescent filament light. Swan had it working practically before Edison.
He still came up with the initial idea.
So they are still his inventions, even if others built the prototype for him.
Hell, I have ideas for things, but don't have the know-how to build them or get backing for them, so would need to get others to do it for me.
But I would still take patents on it, and pay the people who worked on it, because they did a job for me, but it was my idea, initially.
That's a bit like saying amazing architecture should be credited to the construction workers who built it.
Not true
Yeah, but the general attitude in the US and also in Asia is - praise the victor, and someone who has made business out of it, means are forgotten.
If you are looking for perfection in people, you will always be disappointed. If you are looking for a lesson, then you'll always succeed.
Being imperfect and displaying borderline sociopathic behaviour are two entirely different things
Bigotry must not be tolerated.
@@RageyRage82 There are many things that must not be tolerated; abuse, racism, violent crime, etc. But throwing away a whole person because of their worst part is counterproductive.
We are all flawed and some worse than others. Some of those awful people do wonderful things and some wonderful people do awful things. Society's inability to think more complexly about this is why we end up disappointed so often with people we think highly of.
Best to you.
Sometimes recognizing our own faults, especially the ones we consciously conceal, can help us understand the faults that drive other people.
@@ryanbeaty4893 nobody says that we should throw the whole person away. But at the end of the day people who don't respect boundaries can't expect to have many friends or support in their lives. We all have a personal responsibility to treat others the way we want to be treated. If they really wanted to make an effort there is professional help out there. If someone doesn't take advantage of that then it tells me a lot about that person. Of course not everyone can afford professional help but there are ways of saying "I want to change". Manipulating and abusing people doesn't show you want to change. People have a right to distance themselves from hurt and abuse.
Dawkins is right - people (I mean *any* people, people who aren't *someone*) complain about their emotional problems as if they were the most important thing on earth - while other people in other parts of the world would be glad to be even allowed so much as to voice their grievances without fear of their health, safety and even lives.
I was thinking the same thing
Yet Dawkins doesn't troll MRA.
He confuses me. Evolutionary speaking it's survival of the fittest. Self Importance is a natural attribute we have, that is why humbleness and charity must be taught at home during those delightful early years.Yet, he throws his theory out the window to make someone feel bad for caring for themselves
Maybe he really was a bit more of a genius, maybe a little pscyhopathic
Bohemian Rhapsody I am not talking about legitimate grief, I am talking about "emotional problems" of the kind where people complain that they are stressed out and "traumatized" because they didn't get their accustomed seat in a restaurant or because they had to wait 20 minutes for their taxi to arrive or because someone talked back to them at a parents' meeting - that sort of thing. These people need a hefty dose of reality.
+Lionel Gaucher
I wonder if you can hear your seething bigotry. It's a deep ugliness in you.
Every time I hear “James Cameron” all I picture is him in a submarine raising the bar🤣
😂😂
No ocean too deep no budget too steep watch out here comes james cam er ronnn
South Park: "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron IS James Cameron."
no ocean to deep, no budget to steep, look out whos that? james cameron
John Lennon was not a horrible person. Neither is Richard Dawkins. They had/have friends and meant a lot to a lot of people and their contributions immeasurable. There place in history is set.
They may not be flawless they are after all human and therefore changing and dealing with imperfection but they are worthy of admiration and have made a very positive influence. People aren't doing bad things because of them on the contrary they have inspired much good.
So it's ok for him to beat women?
Ragsy x
learn how to read.
scotty I guess you see things differently to me. For me, If a persons beats a person they're meant to love then they're a BAD person, not just "flawed" like you put it, despite other things they may have achieved.
Ragsy x
I never heard of Cynthia, Yoko, or May speak of being beat up by John. I heard of Hendrix and Brian Jones hitting women, Brian Jones apparently habitually, but nothing like that about John. I'd say back in the 50's it might have been more common there's that Billy Holiday song about it, it was way back when, it was also during what would have been John's adolescence. The only evidence of John hitting that I'm aware of is by his own confession and his first girl friend saying he hit here just once when she wouldn't put out so she split it off. He didn't rape her or beat her up, and there are plenty of girls who've been slapped by lovers or friends during the turmoils of a stressed relationship.
I'm not proud of his behavior he wasn't either he'd said he'd changed and he was one of the first men to come out for women's rights and to strive to change how women where being treated. Perhaps he felt bad about it. Then again there's nothing from any of his long term relationships nor anything from anyone else who might have witnessed something. Nothing from his kids, friends, colleges or acquaintances.
If it's true and to the extent you may imagine it it is a sad thing but it doesn't diminish the great things he did for everyone and he has made the world a whole lot better for many of us.
scotty
John Lennon is a thief. He stole from Frank Zappa, among others.
Cynthia Lennon discussed John beating her and being cruel to Julian in her book.
:) There it's an old Russian saying:"In every mind,there it's so much stupidity,capable to darken even the most brilliant one.".
While I'm a very "fuck Russia" person, I agree. Smart people are usually insane, in one way or another.
Also, salut.
Lord Arctus Did Russia do something to you? Or do you get your thinking points from Fox News. Also, what qualifies you to make a statement that smart people are usually insane in some way. That sounds like something dumb people would say.
***** i understand your empath friend..most have no comprehension how tiring it is for empaths like us to be around a person that purports to be smart and and berates everyone. social gathering are specially exhaustive.
***** i dont believe the poster ( or Russian quote ) was talking about stupid as in ( one is stupid if they cant spell ) he means stupid as in ( ignorant jackass without reason )
Sounds like a similar quote from Aristotle.
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
Edison was a genius at taking others work and using his influence and cleverly worded contracts to get. credit. Money talks.
Absolutely what he did to Tesla was ridiculous, with the right backing he could have changed the world even more than he already did
Kind of like Elon Musk, then.
Rich white guys always win bro
It does to those with no real.morals
@@BigErnMcCracken777 Tesla wasn't white !?!? Lol
Plus John Lennon was horrible to his son, Julian, walked out on him, cut him out of his will, and it took Paul McCartney to write a song to comfort Julian ("Hey Jude"), about his parents' divorce, instead of, maybe Julian's OWN FATHER writing it.
Lennon also gave a lot of his fortune to Sean in his will, who he had with Yoko Ono, and Julian got nothing.
The funny thing about Aristotle's beliefs about women being incomplete men is that, genetically, the opposite is true. The Y chromosome (male) is actually missing a bunch of genes that the X chromosome (female) has, which is what causes X-linked genetic disorders such as colorblindness, hemophilia, etc to occur in men but rarely occur in women.
Eugenics huh. Yes, well, looking at the world today, I'd say Tesla was on the right track. That would solve allot of the worlds problems. That thought has crossed my mind too. If humanity is to survive as a species for the next thousand years, we really need to do something about this "stupid" gene.
Eugenics is terrible though I do agree that stupid people shouldn't breed BECAUSE their bullshit often becomes the mindset of their children. Times that mindset by hundreds of thousands and good god.
People talk about eugenics like it's the same thing as racism.
Also, people get surprised he didn't reproduced, he didn't saw himself fit to reproduce, smart or not he had his quirks he didn't wanted to pass on.
(a completely different reason to why he didn't had sex. He wasn't interested in sex, he was more interested in pigeons than people also.)
I was born with cerebral palsy and thus I'm unable to walk without assistance. Shoot me in the head and be done with it right?
TRtherocknroller No.
That's not eugenics, that's murder (or suicide if one does to itself, but you get the gist).
Now, I consciously choose not to reproduce because I have epilepsy with is inheritable.
Eugenics is about reproduction, not murder.
+lloydgush the logic behind eugenics is still the same.
you mean if we listened to tesla... we wouldnt have to have ever heard of the kardashians... he really was a genius
@Randy Baumery To Rob C.
@@Abd.Allaah haha... ok... think you completely missed it... so lets break it down tesla wanted to breed out stupid... the kardashians and people that think they are worth their time... define stupidity...
now if youre referring to the fact that you cant actually breed out stupidity... yes its false.... duh wasnt the point of the comment it was satire... dont take things so literally
@@robc7812 Ah, so i am the one who misunderstanding your comment then. Ok, i'm sorry.
@@Abd.Allaah haha no worries i speak in fluent sarcasm it doesnt always it doesnt always translate properly into text...
I would really like to agree with Tesla , but unfortunately two smart couples won't necessarily produce a smart person. Life sucks ig
My grandmother used to talk to Henry Ford almost daily having short conversation`s. Yes she was one of the phone operator`s at The ford Motor Company.
To those who are not aware of the horrible abuse suffered By Rebeca Watson, she was on a elevator and a guy said some thing like "hey, don`t take me wrong, but I like you... would you like to come to my place and have some coffee??". what followed is not for the faint hearted, I`m warning you... She said no and the dude left her alone... can you believe it ?? can`t you see the lack of respect?? can`t you see the amount of misogyny?? can`t you see that she was basically raped??? yeah, me neither...
fndalves OH MY GAWD D:
Who cares?
fndalves That's not even close to what i said.
fndalves Allright, i messed up here. I thought this was a totally different conversation altogether. Please disregard my previous statement.
fndalves #Triggered #2MuchOppression4Me
John Lennon was all about humanitarian thoughts but in addition to hitting women he treated his oldest son as if he didn't exist & was usually mean to people in person.
Excellent video!
Not the mention that "riches are bad" attitude in his music...but he never thought it was bad for HIM to be rich.
true
Imagines a world without possessions. Lives in a luxury mansion. Nuf said.
John was mad at the world since his mother's senseless death when he was 17. He held it inside and it ate at him for over a decade till he wrote "Julia" in tribute to her. When he smiled at the nation on the Ed Sullivan show, I bet he was thinking of her. Anyhow, as much as I despise Yoko, I have to give her credit for making him face reality about her. Cynthia wasn't a strong enough woman. In his last days, he was the happiest he'd ever been, according to Yoko, and a fan witnessed the encounter between him and Mark Chapman. She said John couldn't have been any nicer to him. So sad for a man to get shot 5 times in the back after he'd turned his life around.
Richard Dawkins Reading hate mail is still one of the funniest things I’ve watched haha
Oh, it's a classic. I go back to rewatch that one occasionally. Perfect for brightening up a rainy afternoon in lockdown.
I feel Dawkins may be on the autism spectrum.
He appears to lack empathy, normal human emotions and lack of concern for others.
I watched every clip with R Dawkins in,and I simply do NOT believe this incident occurred.He is a kind man,real gentleman.
The Dawkins bit baffled me - it seemed more like some kind of personal attack by Simon Whistler. He can be controversial on Twitter, but I certainly wouldn't regard him as anything like a terrible person.
@@guybarritt8632 exactly.
If Virginia Wolfe’s servants hadn’t learned to read, then how would they have been able to read her notes? What a total complete elitist snob.
Indeed, also arrogant as well.
There is not a single E in Woolf. Are you working class, perhaps? Get me my diary, please. Bunch of fools.
If you can't read, take your smartphone, take a picture of the text and say "Hey Goggle, what's written here?" and voilà, you don't need to read a single word, any more. True or not?
Oh you mean Renazikkklans?
@@voornaam3191 I'm sure you MEANT to misspell "Google"?
@@gabrielaavila4275 Yes, sure as if you saw it yourself.
In Amsterdam (I guess) somebody once stole an O from the Google logo, inside a Google office building. It was a truth or dare challenge and the guy vlogged it. One of the directors explained, they really missed that O, after a couple of days. In fact, it is a piece of art, not just a simple 3d print of the well known logo, and he said thank you, for returning it.
If Tesla had kid or a wife we wouldn't have the technology we have today. He dedicated 100% of his life to science, he even reduced sleeping and eating to minimum. His mind and visions were above the average, so i am not surprised that you view him as horrible person. :)
Your comment suggests your comprehension for why Tesla is on the list is ZERO. Ironic considering we're talking about intelligence here. (Hint: Tesla is not on the list because he didn't have a family.)
+Danilo Novakovic .. Looks like you missed the part about Tesla trying to play God in eugenics, that's a dangerous thing to bring to humanity, it could have far reaching devestaions & unimagined unforeseen harm wrought upon the population at large ..
What did Tesla actually DO about eugenics? Please pay homage to Tesla by not reproducing.
Could have, might have been...
I guess all you know about Tesla is what you overheard in this video. You didn't even pay attention.
Or describe just how Tesla was "trying to play God".
@TopTenz You're lost me when you went after Dawkins and defended that shrill, Rebecca Watson. Now I know where you stand at.
I remember reading about Edison having a contest and offering a cash prize to the winner, but then refused to pay the cash prize to the winner. The person who won the contest and got stiffed by Edison, was Tesla, who was also the same person who invented a better form of electricity than Edison and the same person who Edison tried to discredit by electrocuting animals to death. Small world.
peace
That doesn't seem right. Tesla was his employee for a long time. I don't think he would have randomly entered an Edison contest.
@@robertgary3561 it's been awhile since read about it but it was Tesla who claimed that Edison said he'd pay $50K to the assistant who made his dynamo more efficient. When Tesla succeeded and asked for the $ Edison told him it was a joke. It's the reason Tesla quit working for Edison.
Don't forget Edison was a Satanist. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but it's still worse than stealing ideas.
@@davidholtz3885 What? lol No, he was not a satanist. He was very clear and on the record about what his beliefs were. Anyway, isn't stealing worse than being a satanist. It's not a crime to be a satanist.
@@ChickSage it makes him a scumbag
Had the very same argument with a friend regarding John lennon. He was in complete denial about the severity of his actions towards women,tried to feebly defend and was clearly put out by this "inconvenient truth". A classic case of not wanting to accept something simply because they liked their music. Which is preposterous as they are different subjects. Just because you like someone's music doesn't mean you have to be in denial about someone's flaws or criminality or true character.
True that. I had heard the rumors for years that John Lennon basically would SA a girl before going on stage to calm the nerves.....and don't get me started on Jimmy Page. Lol
Not only his songs, his ideals are still relevant, but he was a hypocrital.
@@pedrovoss862 He was wildly hypocritical. He kept a temperature-controlled room in the Dakota Hotel (one of the most expensive in New York) purely for the purpose of storing his fur coats. And he paid the rent for that extremely expensive room with the millions he made off "Imagine." Oh, the irony!
Can you imagine being the first soldier having to tell his commander he discovered the picture of Henry Ford in Hitlers' office hanging in a place of honor?
It probably wouldnt have been that suprising considering he already had car plants in Nazi Germany and 20 years before WW2 wrote a series of antisemantic books.
You've totally misunderstood Dawkins, but I can't even be bothered to try to explain why.
No please dazzle us all with your superior intellect!
***** I don't claim to have superior intellect though I am educated. I can't be bothered because I'm guessing you are religious. If you are religious then you are not rational and if you are not rational then there is no point in me trying to explain to you why Dawkins is not a horrible person, and as there is no point, I can't be bothered trying - OK?
Well you are correct. I am a Christian. However the argument that people of religious faith are not rational is pathetic rhetoric that is used to avoid an actual discussion. I don't refute or reject scientific discovery. I am open to learning what makes the universe what it is. I am not irrational because I believe that something exists that we can't understand on a scientific level. I am not so simple minded that I can not integrate science with the possibility of the super natural Believing that man possesses the capacity to disprove the existence of the supernatural is very irrational considering our extremely limited knowledge of the universe.
Also the maker of this video did not say Dwakins was a bad person because he doesn't believe in God. He siad that instead of educating people he became an internet troll who spews hatred (which is exactly what he is). He also said that he is a sexist creep (which he is)...OK?
Also why write comments if you "can't be bothered"?
*****
I'm beginning to wish I had'nt commented, I did so because I did'nt like this very negative posting that personally attacks people for no apparent reason other than to be unpleasantly smart-arsed. John Lennon, (not here to defend himself) made no secret of the mental health problems and personal demons that afflicted him, even alluding to them in some of his songs. He was no saint, but then he never claimed to be one of those did he?
I don't believe that man has the capacity to disprove the existance of the super-natural, how can anyone prove that something does NOT exist? Now if you (or anybody, anywhere, ever) could prove that the super-natural (an oxymoron in my opinion) DOES exist, then I might begin to accept the possibility of the existence of a God or Gods, but you can't, so I don't. OK?
*****
I know nobody has to prove anything to me in order to justify their beliefs. I only challenged you (or anyone else) to prove the existence of the supernatural in response to your assertion that - "Believing that man posesses the capacity to disprove the existence of the supernatural is very irrational". I don't care if you believe in the tooth fairy, but when you try to characterise your belief as just as valid and deserving of just as much respect as knowledge derived from rigorous, empirical scientific observation, then I feel you should be challenged. As for Dawkins and Lennon (neither of whom you've ever personally met I'll bet) being respectively a 'sexist creep' and 'scum' - well perhaps, after all they're just poor, human creatures, but you claim to be a Christian, so have some humility and forgive them.
I practiced self-eugenics. One of the reasons I didn't have children is bc I and a slew of relatives have hard-core mental illness. I wouldn't visit it on anyone I loved.
That's a pretty sane statement.😉
The word mental illness can be used on anyone you don’t like or have an alternative view of life. Just excuses for not having understanding or enlightenment.
@@futuraguysuntzuphilosophy7181
Not really, there actually are individuals whose mental state is imbalanced which is real issue. The ones involved like family members or intimate partners suffer more than the mentally disturbed one believe it or not.
@@denisequinn9015 Schizophrenia doesn't make ppl evil.
@@updownstate It doesn't help
To be fair to Newton, the scientific community in his day was essentially like the modern blogosphere. You should try reading about what Darwin had to put up with in his day.
Newton just wanted to be alone. And - he very reluctantly published at the insistence of those who knew his work by letters, and when he did he took great offense at the many trolls and credit claims by those he left behind - there were a lot of those.
honestly...richard dawkins???...wtf???!?
You know, being talented and being a genius is not the same thing.
Clearly the writer was not a genius. They should have just went with "famous people" instead of "geniuses".
I recently heard that Lennon was a completely different person once he had a few drinks...he became very belligerent. The same was true of Johnny Carson.
Alcohol does that to way too many men...
And women too. It’s the alcohol, hence health warnings
Why blame the alcohol? :drinkers use it as an excuse to let their frustration and malignancy out of the box.
@@None-zc5vg True. Way back in the 80s, i was a very heavy drinker. but already then, i always said, alcohol may be an explanation, but never ever use it as an excuse. i never got malignant or aggressive, even when completely pissed rotten. may also have to do with the basic character of a person.
Carson was nearly always armed with a holstered pistol. One night he started breaking into hotel rooms looking for someone he thought was sleeping with his wife. He was pretty gangester.
"We wouldn't have reality TV". That's a bad thing? The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
oof
😂👍
Virginia Wolfe and Tesla would agree. I think this video thoroughly illustrated how snobs, particularly intellectual snobs, can be worst kind of people.
@John brenot you sweet little Nazi, my reproduction years will be over way before 2100.
Do you not realize how much of a slippery slope eugenics is? If eugenics existed you wouldnt of been born anyways.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~ Buddha
@Scott Laux its shockingly bad isnt it!
And the truth shall let you free :)
@@pinkfloydand3c much better than work shall set you free
@Scott Laux "truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Set it loose And it will defend itself" St. Augustine.
How can a guy weigh over 700lbs and still have the guts to talk about self discipline? -Anger Management
Interesting, but the part about Richard Dawkins was very baised and one sided.
Well he can be a dick at times. But he's still smart.
videogamebomer dawkins is neither a genius nor a horible person but has been guilty of arrogance and insensitivity.
Agreed. They could have made a stronger case there: Dawkins has done a few dickish things, but that is not really trying.
scarred10
No. You forget the actual scientist Dawkins. You know the word "meme"? Well he invented it & wrote a book on it about cultural transitions of views & acts amongst many others. The man is a genius. I dislike this list for a great deal of reasons whilst not defending most people, but I will say Dawkins as a person does appear to be a douche. Still a fucking genius.
*****
Just the sense I've gotten from a few interviews, one in particular in Australia he was very rude. I'm on his side I just think he can be an asshole. But this list is a sham anyways.
Hooke is not forgotten. Microscopy and cell biology rest on Hooke's shoulders.
Hooke's Law in Physics was formulated by him.
I've always read Norwegian Wood this way: Lennon goes home with a girl who doesn't put out so when he wakes up he makes a fire out of her furniture. I always preferred Paul anyway.
hahaha... Lennon was weird, abusive towards women and in fact was a hard core communist.... think about his song "Imagine"... it's about a communist world...
@@AnneOhn123 I've always loved Maxwell's Silver Hammer as a bit of black humour but what if it isn't.
AC/DC should have done a song about the Tesla/Edison feud!!
Tesla did: "Man out of Time".
*Edison's Medicine
Nice!
Talk about a Powerage. Too bad Edison & Tesla never reconciled, they might have formed a special BONd.
Hahahaa! Nice
HOW, is asking someone to come back to their room '' sexism ''?
If he had DEMANDED it, or freaked out on her for saying no, then yes. But simply asking isn't sexist........ Even if he had said it flat out '' Do you want to sleep with me? ''. That STILL wouldn't have been sexist o.O...
Kolsyrad Mcluvin Turns out the elevator guy was gay, and was just a fan who was a bit awkward in social skills. Watson drew the wrong conclusion and became a star because of it.
Locutus D'Borg She never would have become "a star" as a result if Dawkins hadn't posted on her page.
Kolsyrad Mcluvin Not sure how it's sexist or even harassment. Asking a woman out, to have a drink or come back to your room, it's a proposition. If the woman says no and the man repeatedly asks or pressures the woman, then yes that is harassment. Watson is just a dipshit attention seeker.
Kolsyrad Mcluvin Apparently, someone's emotional reaction to the proposition is all that's required to make it sexist and harassment (according to femanazis). And calling it out like this will make us "horrible people". This video is a f&%$ing joke.
Money Equals Debt But it turned out he was a gay fan of hers who just wanted to talk, so she completely misread the situation.
It’s hard to take this list seriously when the video you promoted at the end
was “The top 10 reasons you should respect Nickleback.”
Lmao omg I don't think I've heard anything I'd wanna watch less 😂
hahahahaha
Being humble is a term that these people and many others know nothing of. Thanks
Yes. They are biological Terminators. (flat hand across the neck a couple of times)
You're kind of loose with the term "Genius"
And the word "horrible"
Alan P: Thank you!!! Precisely!!! Jobs I don't think so. Very very very far from it!!!
HAHAHAHAHA! AGREED!
Yeah, I wouldn't call James Cameron a genius.
@@Lemmy Winks , I think you're confusing popularity with genius, and by that logic Justin Bieber is also a genius. You've told me nothing about why Cameron's a genius other than his box office returns. That makes him a businessman not a genius.
Edison didn't just electrocute puppies, he also electrocuted an elephant in public (video available on CZcams of the atrocity) and, more importantly, invented the electric chair. He didn't invent it as a humane means of electrocution, he invented it as a bloody awful way to die in order to trash A.C. When I say 'invent', he didn't actually invent anything, he either stole the idea or one of his underpaid, overworked staff invented it and he capitalised on it. He was a complete arsehole by any measure.
He was pretty awful.
Well said, Edison was a vile little man just evil!!!
Awww Topsy
You should've mentioned that he stole everything I agree he took all his inventions from the people work for him and then claimed it as his own
I thought the electric chair was invented by a dentist.
For the record, Robert Hooke was as bad as Isaac Newton when it came to arguing and bickering. Also, Hooke contributed in many different fields; elsewhere in physics we have Hooke's law, which relates the force due to the displacement of a spring under ideal circumstances, he observed cells with a microscope, was a proponent of evolution, suggested the wave theory of light, and on and on and on. It's a shame Hooke and Newton weren't better people.
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My favorite part is how the video describes how awful these people were then adds, “for those of you too lazy to open another tab google it...”
I thought Lennon was on the list because he abandoned his first born son
He also beat his first son's mother, Cynthia. In addition, he made insulting comments to the press, saying 90% of babies are born out of a bottle.
Lennon, like a lot of celebrities full of themselves, was a horrid person and so fake. By all accounts, he was a bully and absolutely awful to his women. So when I read accounts of how Yoko Ono bullied and bossed him about, I just chuckle and think, Karma, mate, karma!!
And he wasn't a genius
he was a musical genius @@nickc6583
A hypocrite espoused love but afforded little to some nearest in his life.
12,898 vs 12,897 like to dislike ratio: 1.00007754
Well I guess your viewers are more interested in numbers.
12,990:12,990 now.
warm gun karma
Im sure its because of the Dawkins thing
The Black Johnny Gat
Yeah, probably because some fuckwits can't handle the fact that some people need religion to cope with the morbidity of life and death.
Lennon "taking enough drugs to cause sniffer dogs early retirement" best quote I've heard for ages 😂🤣😂
I thought you were talking about geniuses. Not people that were bullies just because they thought they were geniuses.
😂😂😂
You can't deny some of these people are geniuses. Just because they're bad people doesn't mean you have to deny reality bruh
FACT: Frank Zappa and Nikola Tesla were never seen in the same room together!
"FACT: Frank Zappa and Nikola Tesla were never seen in the same room together!" Nor was I.
Fact no one can account for Frank Zappa's werabouts the night Lincoln or pac was shot
Too bad it’s would been ELECTRIC.. ha ha .. I let myself out
John Randall That’s funny,
I sat in the Announcers box at the NORWOOD ARENA WITH Jonny Most when I was five years old !!! In 1964
Who you jiving with that cosmic debris...✨🎶🎸⚡
43.5% of those that voted gave this vid a thumbs down. That's the briefest way I can think of to make my point here.
*****
But if you look at the votes for and against on most normal youtube videos, you'll see that once you've shown enough interest in a subject to click on a video, it must be something you're a fan of. Very few videos will get a 44% negative vote. And majority rules doesn't mean they're right. If that was the case then teenage girls' opinion on Justin Bieber would mean that he's probably better than Rossini or Mozart.
Is popularity reflected in the amt of views, or the percent of those that voted on it positively? I think most people should know by now how randomly people use superlatives in youtube videos. As in "The funniest prank ever" etc etc. The very phrase "Top Ten" has a superlative implied on an ongoing basis. Also, eugenics still gets a bad press to this day. If you had the male with the highest IQ in the same room as the female with the highest IQ I think they should have a kid together. The resultant human could well have the highest IQ yet known. Who knows what benefit to mankind he could deliver. And Socrates couldn't have beaten Aristotle to the punch at anything. He just died about 15 years b4 Aristotle was born, which is not the same thing. Btw, what country do you come from? I can't quite place the accent. My guess is Australia.
Selinor578 Just so you know Like=Dislikes for youtube. Both help the video get shown to everyone.
I don't even understand what the thumbs up or the thumbs down vote actually means. Does it mean you don't like the video because you think the content is inaccurate or does it mean you think the quality of the video was poor or does it mean you don't think the video was helpful or relative to the title? It's not a decent barometer of anything.
bluhousworker
I think it just means you liked the video or you didn't like it, for whatever reason you may have.
Dawkins tried to get a girl to go back to his room. I fail to see how that makes him a bad human.
You're sidestepping his rampant sexism to hold this line.
Dawkins. If you want to see a uniquely self unaware human watch the Denton interview
Dawkins is a legend.
@@deltanovember1672 congratulations on missing the whole point of the video
@@stephenmcqually2983 😂 whoooosh.
The Dawkins entry is completely unjustified.
Richard Dawkins, lol
Eh, I see what Nikola Tesla meant
And with Henry Ford I laughed my head off
i hav heard of henry ford
hitler could have been avoided, but no...the guy that was about to shoot him did not shoot him and let him get away
SoulFalls Girl I know, but I also know that there were much more horrible people than hitler, and I laugh every time he's mentioned
lol
yeah it did
You missed a classic example: Richard Wagner. In addition to inventing music drama, he had affairs with other men's wives and wrote a nasty anti-Semitic tract which influenced Hitler, who was a great fan of his work. A thoroughly disagreeable character.
Blake Morris but not an all time worst
Was just going to say they left Wagner, my favorite composer and one of my least favorite humans , out of it.
Am I the only person who doesnt like Wagner's music?
Blaydes No, a lot of people don’t like him. His music can be awfully dreary. Even I don’t like some of his stuff.
Was just wondering as all I see on social media, documentaries and even interviews of Jews who escaped the holocaust saying that he was a music genius, even though they didn't agree with his sentiments about eugenics or whatever hatred he was spewing.
I dont actually like any of his music. It's all too simplistic and I dont hear anything unique about it. He could have been mother Theresa and I'd still hate the music...
James Cameron also hired a team of engineers to build him a super fancy submersible and then touted it as his success.
That submersible he didn’t build-he took it to Challenger Deep, a trip so dangerous that it had only been done once before. So maybe he didn’t do anything but “drive” it, but that took an unbelievable amount of guts. Genius, idk, but a super-intense man.
A slightly longer list and we could have Steve Jobs on there.
Bill Gates too. He's just more subtle than the others with his awfulness
This is a list of geniuses, not idiots that died because they didn't take their medicine
@@darndirtydogbob5205 HAHAHAHAHA
And Zimmerman...
& Jeff Bezos..
This list was really, really stupid. Too much bias and hardly any substance. It was like the FOX News of CZcams lists.
And it doesn't help that only maybe half of the people listed were/are geniuses.
Spoken like a true brain dead socialist
Jason Newman Well, I saw the makers of the video claimed Einstein invented gravity.
Says it all really.
Agree with Tesla feel not everyone should breed. He was brilliant for not breeding. Yes, he was a genius but, it came at a high cost with his OCD, visions and so on. He knew he might pass that on to a child.
It's wise not horrible. Now, he's eugenics stand not sure how deep that goes. But, not horrible for pointing that out. Disney belonged in this video more than Tesla.
George Westinghouse Jr however, an example of an amazing human. Inventor. Far better than Edison. We should talk about him more as a example. Successful and kind.
Plus Tesla may well be correct about Eugenics in the year 2100.
they're doing stuff right now that would curdle your blood, if you knew.
Bell Scott he was never a genius
Tesla wasn't concerned about his future progeny. He didn't have sex because he believed it would dissipate or waste his mental energy, full stop.
Also Tesla was not proven wrong yet. This could very well happen by 21st century esp if we have problems with overpopulation and resources running out. Remember that movie Gattaca? Great sci fi. People just don't realize how great the world is right now, and take far too much for granted.
People have flaws. That don't make us horrible. The ones who expect perfection from others will always be disappointed. They demands others no to do the same mistakes they do. The forgiveness they demand for their flaws is denied for the others.
He thinks John Lennon was a genius?
Indeed... left
Dawkins = Sexist?
LOL
Abba Okoro
Idiot^^^
Tesla was right: Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed.
All you have to do is look around. No way that thought can't cross your mind.
serial killers shouldn't be allowed to breed
But who decides?
John Casteel
Apparently, Tesla decides.
starting with this channel
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron,
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because he is James Cameron
"It's not because you suffer more, that I suffert less" JLC 1988.
You missed Steve Jobs.
Why was he bad
Rob Mackenzie I heard horror stories about him...I believe you...He was going to bury Bill Gates...Well Bill's alive and a helleva lot richer than him...sorry Steven...But I wish you eternal rest...Pancreatic Cancer was a living hell while you were dying from it...I wish this disease on no one..It's horrible...
Oh...The name Steven was a rumor I used to hear he hated to be called
You mean the guy who thought that drinking urine could cure cancer?
Correct, despite being incredibly wealthy - Jobs denied he's fathered his daughter - in doing so, he maliciously smeared the mother who HE impregnated and then left them in poverty until the girl was ten. (pig) Jobs Stole the iphone design (see LG Prada phone). Jobs also STOLE the ipod interface, (see Creative labs apple 150 million settlement),. Jobs also stole the ipod idea from Bob Kramer - in its entirety, device idea (Jobs even modified the original IXUS NAME to make ipod)., the device appearance, music player and the central downloading facility. The whole idea was NOT his - and neither was it for any of the products. He even stole the brAun calculator design for the iphone.
Why do you act as if Titanic and Avatar are the only noteworthy films by James Cameron? He made The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and True Lies as well.
Yeah, not only is he an amazing director but he's an amazing painter as well.
+Chris Razack paint me like one of your French girls.
Ok
I can produce movies also, alot of people can. What's your definition of genius?
Rich Hamel When you're the filmmaker behind Terminator 1&2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, etc...
The shocking lack of Blaze in Simon's early work is disturbing.
Dawkins' comment was blown WAY out of proportion.
Sometimes people get caught up in the first world.
He was simply trying to remind people of the horrors that take place overseas and that some people have it 100x worse.
You cannot expect that people that are trascendentally exceptional in one aspect must be exceptional in all other aspects at all moments during their lifes. They are humans after all. Also, their "sins" should be put within the historical context because their achievements were significant within their historical context.
John Lennon was an asshole. It's well documented.
Ellder Sage So very true.
I am not excusing anyone nor qualifying anyone as good or as bad.
What I am saying is that it is impossible to excel at everything at all times.
Amso the most common thing is to find assholes without "superpowers" everywhere ...hence, you have to expect that superheroes must be assholes in other aspects of their life ...and if you put that in the right frame of reference you will be able to judge more adequately.
When young, I've heard, he used to straight up mug people.
No, John never mugged anyone, nor instigated a fight. He fought cos he had to in that tough town he grew up in. So sad that in his last days, Yoko says he was the happiest he'd ever been and vowed to never again be rude to fans and to be the father to Sean that he himself never had. If he was alive today, I think he'd be a very happy grampa and might still be making music.
Hmm the not so little rant about Dawkins makes me think the person or persons behind this list have taken some kind of personal dislike to Dawkins and allowed that to skew their choices for the list. So we're basically just getting an opinion. One that's really not worth anything more than any other in the comments below and we all know how worthless youtube comments are.
Isn't pretty much every top 10 list an opinion? Just saying...
Alex Wilson
They are not all biased opinions though...
That's exactly what opinions are, expressing our bias towards whatever. What are they if not our bias?
Alex Wilson
Perhaps you should try giving objective opinions rather than biased ones, if you think all opinions are biased. Never heard of an objective opinion? Don't understand the concept of being fair in your assessments of people? Not all opinions are biased.
Absolutely opinions should be objective if possible, however bias is always there again, if possible. An opinion can be objective and biased.
“Dances with Blue Aliens”!!!! I literally laughed out loud (LLOL)!
8:34 You forgot the most important bit after killing puppies, and killing an elephant, he designed the electric chair.
they'll say aw Topsy at my autopsy
Kind of ironic how horrible it is to kill puppies but the vast majority of the people who are shocked literally pay others to kill animals that they eat every day of their lives.
@@sampsonsimpson1040 and needlessly wear or use that animal that was used for testing.Wise words you wrote.
Eugenics was supported by the US government and enforced by law. Calling out Tesla on that specifically is kind of ridiculous when it was so widely supported.
Izzak Beck so was slavery and genocide against the natives and spousal rape.
Prince Mononoke You've missed his point entirely lol.
longliverocknroll5 did I?
+Prince Mononoke My point is that calling out Tesla for that instead of calling out all of America for it is stupid, if you are going to call someone horrible for something in particular, it should probably be something that is unique to them, not something that existed as a norm in their society.
Izzak Beck so i did get your point. I don't agree.
Tesla is my husband's Serbian blood relative for real, on his Mom's side.
and never was considered shockingly horrible but rather someone
who gave the world his electrical genius. He did so many things right.
We would be back in the 60s if it wasn’t for Tesla and if everyone would’ve listened to him we would be far more advanced.
TYVM Top Tenz enjoyed watching your video.
Never thought of Lennon as a genius but agree that he was a d bag
Cause he changed and admitted his mistakes you sound like the real d bag
Way to miss some big facts, Edison didn't just kill puppies he killed a bunch of animals including a frickin' ELEPHANT!!!
True.
Edison was a real piece of work, killing animals destroying Telsa couldnt handle the fact that Telsa was more brillant then him
Extactly! Not to mention he allegedly stole ideas from other investors and claimed them to be his own! What a bully!
Richard Dawkins is NOT a shockingly horrible person, casual sexist comment or not.
+Storm Hawk I would have to agree with you. It's not horrible to criticize religion. Just as it's not horrible to criticize atheism and make a case for god. (I can't believe they included that).
I think his comment was was less sexist than it was thoughtless and belittling - one's opinion is not invalid merely because someone, somewhere is suffering worse. But one can be wrong about these things, even a jerk and not be a 'horrible person'.
The prat who's narrating this clearly as a chip on his religious shoulder towards atheists.
John Lennon is also supposed to have hit his first son Julian numerous times when Julian was a child. And Lennon is also reported to have beaten other men for example two sailors in Hamburg. One of them he hit so hard that Lennon didn´t know, if the other man survived the fight. The other sailor he tried to rob - together with the other Beatles.Lennon also claimed that he had beaten the "fifth Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe, so hard that Lennon afterwards believed that this could have caused Sutcliffes early death. (I´ve also read that there is the theory that Lennon confused things in his memory and in reality hit someone else than Sutcliffe but of course that wouldn´t make Lennon to appear to had been a more likeable person.)
Julian denied John hit him
@@evanpowers6045 Thank you for the information. I find this interesting. Maybe those stories were just made up.
@@howardpope3932 They are it’s true he could be verbally aggressive but, my parents and most parents can be and I never heard he beat up 2 sailors, if he were to hit Julian he would’ve said so in interviews
Its weird coming to this video after Brain Blaze…. Things have changed somewhat… haha keep up the great work Simon! (And writers and editors)
‘It’s not like u wrote Star Wars’ Best line Ever🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆
@chris younts True that
This is definitely in my top ten worst top ten videos.
Yeah baby. Own it.
+TopTenz Actually, I think the biggest problem with this video is that it shows just how casually the word "genius" gets tossed around these days.
And the comment section shows just how little people _really_ want to know about the characters they idolize.
They were all horrible people. John Lenton sold his soul to the devil. He also abandoned his son Julian, and left him nothing, on top of beating women. Gee I wonder, where he is today ?
“I used to be cruel to my woman. I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean but, I’m changing that scene and doing the best that I can.”. Beatles. Hidden message?
Not too hidden. Lennon admitted in the mentioned Playboy interview that it was about how he treated women:
“It is a diary form of writing. All that "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically -- any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am not violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”
What's wrong with the "God Delusion"?
Also....you're defending Rebecca Watson? No wonder you got so many dislikes.
+Zer0dog More SJWs as well
Have no idea who Pat Robetson is. It is a very prejuidice book, it says blacks are evolved from apes and it encourages insulting religion, which actually has morals. Fred Phelps was smarter than any scientist could be, p.s. homophobia isn't discrimination.
+boxbreaker2011 He really seems angry at Dawkings
Give me any of Dawkins assertions about religion and I can counter them in four sentences or less.
Varon Cook Dawkins, and other New Atheists, claim that religious belief motivated the 9/11 terrorists. There. Counter that in 4 sentences or more if you want.
Also Edison DIDN'T INVENT the lightbulb. Some schmuck in a factory did and he took credit for it.
Puff Ball
his name was Joseph swan.
he was an inventor. in Newcastle UK.
he was not a schmuck !
Thomas Edison ? That guy couldn't tell a typewriter key from a light bulb.
+Mayoff Jack, And all of his assistants were black scientists. So you can guess where the theories really came from. Same with A.G. Bell. Hey are you sure you're not Jack Meoff.
That isn't true. Sorry.
Edison was infamous for stealing others' inventions and claiming them as his own (at best, he "perfected" most of the inventions with which he was credited, no more inventing them than Henry Ford "invented" the automobile). Even the high-school teachers of my mother back in the late 1930s knew and taught this unpleasant fact.
...and we were so close to living in a reality-show free society!
John Lennon was the biggest hypocrite that everyone refuses to acknowledge. Imagine was written by a guy who spent more on a single custom pen than I do on whiskey.
I don't think the central message of Imagine was frugality.
everyone make mistakes. we're men, not saints. i don't believe in what people say about him. he was a beautiful man, and i hope chapman rot in hell in prison
Lennon's woman-beating wasn't a secret to any half-hearted Beatles' fan: he talked about it openly in his lyrics. In "You Can't Do That" he threatens to knock the girl out if she is unfaithful. In "Run For Your Life" he literally says he will kill her. In their later 'peace & love' days he changes his tune so to speak, in his lyrics: "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved... man I was mean but I'm changing my scene, and I'm doing the best that I can".
It is his past that he attributes to his attitude towards peace and love, sort of a change of perspective from a life that he deeply regretted. He wasn't exactly a hypocrite; he was open about it and did not return to those ways.
Lennon was far more than just a woman-beater. I've had to do a lot of research on the Beatles and from what I've seen he was a horrible person hiding behind a facade. He really only cared about himself and nobody else, he was both a horrible father and husband, he was incredibly competitive to the point where he would even down-talk his own friends just to feel beter about himself, He felt artistically superior to just about everyone and he was naive as all hell. But he was just about the most loved person on the planet, so why would the media care, right? Hell, I'm pretty sure the man was a complete psychopath, but he hid it so well, nobody ever noticed.
Oh yes, and when he says "You better hide your head in the sand, little girl..." he's actually telling a female toddler to literally put her head inside sand so no one can see it. And "that's the end" LITERALLY LITERALLY LITERALLYLITERALLY means "I am going to murder a girl for being with another man"; it couldnt POSSIBLY mean "that's the end of our relationship," or something similar because then I wouldnt have anything cool to talk about at parties! I context do good. Either listen to "Run for Your Life" again or look up the word "literally." Oh, yeah. Also, "Im gonna let you down, and leave you flat" LITERALLY means he's going to run a girl over with a bulldozer. Wow.
Nelroy Now that's a butthurt lennon lover
Coca-Cola® Official Maybe he was a pretty shitty guy and a "psychopath" and yes that would disappointment me, but the misinterpretation of those particular lyrics bug me more. I'm more butt-hurt about people confusing their own "critical thinking skills" with their misunderstanding of art in general.
Excuse my naïveté ee, but I always thought leaving someone flat, was just an expression, meaning walking out on someone.. May I refer to Chad and Jeremy's song lyrics, from Evil Hearted Me: " I don't care if she leaves me flat! I've got forty-seven others, if it comes to that."
Clearly, he isn't saying that he wouldn't care if she ran him over with a bulldozer.
I suppose that the original poster believes that Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clare, is really about pedophiliac sex with a three-year-old.
This list is using a very loose definition of genius.
People throw that term around so often, I'm not even sure what it means socially. Like, I know the definition of the word, but when a word is used regularly to describe anyone with talent, it kinda takes on a new meaning. I dunno why 'talented' is seen as a lesser tern to describe someone who is... talented?? Or creative? Or prodigious? Maybe it's nitpicky, but it does lessen the power of that word when it's used to describe everyone who has done something impressive, regardless of true societal impact.
Who on this list do you not consider a genius, oh wise one?
I think they meant book smart lmao
@@shawncolarusso5516 Ford and Edison for a start. Do your own research and read their biographies. They were definitely not geniuses.
@@jazzerzzz22 some of them weren't even that
Not getting married and not having children makes you a horrible person?
A lucky one !
Yes
No, it makes you an amaziing person
It's believed he was gay. That's why he didn't marry and have kids.
Simon Whistler. He just rambles on about he's kids when I try to listen to true crime :D
Whistler is truly a form of evil for the internet. He lives the stupid his narration causes.
wow... is Dawkins a horrible person for THAT? I think not.
Sounds like a butthurt christian made this list, and really, really tried to make Dawkins seem bad just because hes an atheist, and because he wasn't afraid to call out a feminist on feminist bullshit.. But hey. Lets take everything any feminist says like its "gospel" and ignore obvious lies. Because all men are evil and feminists are always right. Ironic much?
NicosMind His description of Dawkin's 'Sexism' was exaggerated, but he made a good point about Dawkins using his knowledge to agitate people online.
Eine Kartoffel perhaps he's annoying or even a jerk to some but "shockingly horrible person" seems a little much.
hebber1961 I guess so. I think he just wanted to establish the fact that he's not such a nice person.
I think he just doesn't suffer fools and is willing to correct an incorrect statement. Is it better to let someone continue in ignorance for fear of upsetting them?
Bottom line: We should not put people on pedestals. And the true heroes and geniuses are not recorded in history.
+Martin de Lange The problem is that almost everybody, at some point in their life, needs to draw some inspiration from another person's triumph over adversity. Can you manage to use their story without putting them on a pedestal? Do we 'need them on that pedestal?' I'm actually asking the question, because I like the idea of heroes, but I have a hard time excusing nasty behavior.
+teemusid I have not thought about it that way. Are you saying: Embrace the genius, but shun bad behaviour.
+Martin de Lange If you can, but to feel that inspirational fire, you have to identify with the source, and in doing so, you will likely forge an emotional bond with the person(s) that inspire you. To quote Admiral Ackbar, "It's a trap!"
Kinda like how some people ignore the bad things people do when its someone they like like a celebrity?
Kind of... don't use top tens to interpret history though, or you're in for a lot of embarrassing conversations with people who actually know a thing or two. (this video paints a wildly inaccurate picture of most of the people in it)
putting Dawkins on this list is a disservice for the list
Serious question, why? Not trying to be a troll or anything, I am very interested in your perspective.
@@anthonymonge7815 Richard Dawkins has an alternative world view which he promotes in an intelligent and articulate manner. Compare that with religious leaders who use threats of corporeal and post corporeal violence to assert their opinion and, if that doesn't work, have non-conformers burnt at the stake or stoned to death.
@@philipdrew1066 Dawkins' My-Way-Or-The-Highway arrogance has become the 'prototype' for what are sometimes described as 'Fundamentalist' Atheists.
@@matonmongo is this the kind of fundamentalist who fly planes into buildings or are you just holding atheists to higher moral standards than theocrats?
Woke silliness
Woolf’s view of reading is sadly becoming more and more substantive. Books are fast becoming a luxury only the rich can afford, especially paper and hardback. Simple mass market paperbacks you find at some grocery stores are sitting at 10 and 15 bucks in some places.
One can find books online for no fee.
Narrator is more upset by Dawkins not liking first world problems than he was by Anti-semites, and the Chess player celebrating 9-11 tragedy... Guess we know who is #11 on this list... Wait that would mean he's a genius.
Nathan M sexism and creepy dudes who think they deserve sex just because is not a first world problem and he’s not American so he can’t as closely relate to the horrible things that guy said on 9/11 as much as he can to the internet troll, like yourself, as an Internet personality.
Savage.
Nathan M /
Perhaps Fisher was listed first due to the fact that his "genius" was the most trivial at best. He played chess and talked sh*t. If you hold out for #1, antisemitism comes back as with a vengeance. Issac Newton did invent calculus to prove his point, but sure he was just being vindictive to a guy that claimed to "discover" something but couldn't prove it...
I have watched a couple of these videos now and I do admire the way this fellow seems to regularly present stories and rumors as facts.
Hooke tried to ruin Newton and steal his work.
Newton had every right to fire back.
But Newton himself was a monster. Read about his conduct as head of the mint.