this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
778 points (98.0% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

5746 readers
1095 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.


Other Communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He was married and having kids before his theories had fully taken shape.

But he did know, or at least suspected, he'd made a mistake after the death of his first daughter. But he also had healthy children too, so he couldn't say anything unequivocally.

He ended up being a case study for his own theory, and he was well aware of it.