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Cacciato posted...

Ill bite, why did you lump Einstein in with Stalin?

Einstein obviously wasn't as evil as Stalin, or at the very least wasn't in a position to do as much damage as him. The list isn't supposed to include equally evil people, but people who are/were evil but are still widely defended by many, some moreso than others. Anyway, Einstein was a narcissist, a misogynist, a wife beater, and a plagiarist. He stole his first wife's theory of relativism, wrongly claiming fame and a Nobel Prize. When it comes to famous plagiarists, Thomas Edison is even worse than him, but as far as I know he wasn't an angry wife beater who tried to control others. Thomas Edison was a patent thief and an unscrupulous businessman, which is what made him famous because he was really good at it.