Einstein: A Wife Beater, Plagiarist, Eugenicist, Determinist, and Admirer of Lenin

Mathematician Roger Schlafly has recently resurrected the long-forgotten argument suggesting that much of what is…

VT Foreign Policy

By Jonas E. Alexis

There is a hesitancy among some writers and scholars to document allegations of plagiarism against figures like Einstein, possibly influenced by concerns related to their ethnicity or background.

“Clearly, Albert had no patience with and very little respect for women. The only female scientist to whom he accorded a modicum of respect was Marie Curie, and even that he could not do without qualification…Even from Elsa, he kept his distance. Once when she referred to the two of them as ‘us,’ Albert retorted, ‘talk about you or me but never about us.”

Arguably the most shocking claim, based on evidence from Zackheim, suggests that Einstein abandoned his only daughter, Liesel, purportedly due to the belief that she was mentally handicapped. Einstein’s younger son, Eduard, or “Tete,” born in 1910,

“developed schizophrenia as a young man, apparently in consequence of a disturbing love affair with an older woman…