tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post7927839409059838193..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Professors Who KillLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-6772589879520853862010-02-16T18:57:04.856-06:002010-02-16T18:57:04.856-06:00That is in a way something that the Bishop case ha...That is in a way something that the Bishop case had in common with the Fabrikant case. Both these people had incidents in their past that might have given their employers some warning about what was to come, except that the employers did not know about these incidents. Fabrikant claimed to be a Soviet dissident, whereas according to some reports he had actually been thrown out of various universities in the USSR for disruptive behavior.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-32153847401443793442010-02-16T08:32:17.183-06:002010-02-16T08:32:17.183-06:00Apparently Bishop and her husband may have also be...Apparently Bishop and her husband may have also been involved in sending a pipe bomb to a Harvard professor some years ago - the bomb didn't go off and charges were dropped. Bishop sounds like a complete sociopath.Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-57418339361358365832010-02-14T18:07:36.112-06:002010-02-14T18:07:36.112-06:00For accounts of the Fabrikant case that differ in ...For accounts of the Fabrikant case that differ in some respects from the New York Times article to which I linked, see these:<br /><br />http://archives3.concordia.ca/timeline/histories/Arthurs_report.pdf<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=23678233004&topic=6599Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-59156505519856601632010-02-14T12:31:22.080-06:002010-02-14T12:31:22.080-06:00Since blog is about me, then my comments are certa...Since blog is about me, then my comments are certainly pertinent.<br /><br />I was not denied tenure. <br /><br />It makes no sense, from scientific point of view, to join together the case of professors murdering his wife with the case of professor killing other professors. From scientific point of view, it makes more sense to join together those who kill their wives, regardless of their profession, separatly from those who kill somebody at their workplace. Mr. Lester is obviously a phony scientist and I suggest that his degree be revoked.Valery Fabrikanthttp://fabrikant.webs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-75067458896780673992010-02-14T12:22:42.582-06:002010-02-14T12:22:42.582-06:00I guess I'd classify Ted Kaczynski as "to...I guess I'd classify Ted Kaczynski as "to crazy to even be a professor."Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-85523732054757672092010-02-14T08:40:14.467-06:002010-02-14T08:40:14.467-06:00I was totally shocked by this when I heard about i...I was totally shocked by this when I heard about it on the radio yesterday. Your post is somewhat comforting in pointing out the extreme rarity of violence by academics. <br /><br />As an aside, I did think the NY Times's attempts to play up her "strange behavior" before the shooting a bit strained. "Not making eye contact" and "reading from a textbook to lecture" are far too common phenomena among academics to tell us anything about her mental state. My sense is that, in contrast, Kazinski's behavior, even as an academic, was fairly bizarre.Slanted Answerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02246367770009754155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-18642650835919874192010-02-13T16:33:17.615-06:002010-02-13T16:33:17.615-06:00At first I thought, "sheesh, how could I not ...At first I thought, "sheesh, how could I not think of him?" but I see in Wikipedia that Kaczynski didn't set off his first bomb until almost 10 yrs. after resigning from Berkeley. Of course, in those intervening years, all kinds of changes were going on in his head (mostly horrible, of course). So I don't think his Unabomber phase belongs in a sample group meant to show something about academic behavior.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-92169891011865509652010-02-13T16:14:34.442-06:002010-02-13T16:14:34.442-06:00You've left out Theodore Kazinski who at one t...You've left out Theodore Kazinski who at one time was a promising young mathematical star academic at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Cal Berkeley. We all know how the rest of his story went.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com