#FamilyIsEverything. APL = 5.65/10 *Authorized conspiracy theorist *Not an authorized preacher.
He's just one more outed fake hero. The real question that affects us in the here and now is legitimacy of the 'science' that was promoted under his name and has become physics dogma.
What was academia being distracted from then? What subjects will never receive grant money? Did relativity shut down any hopes of FTL travel?
It at least stopped the research on the ether.
Reading the actual notes of the early 1900s Physicists is pretty eye-opening. When Michelson-Morley experiment showed no difference in the speed of light, the first thing a number of them were thinking that the Earth isn't moving...