Scott Aaronson on Walter Lewin (scottaaronson.com)

This behavior is the direct result of the political correctness and prudishness reigning in the US, that make sometimes people in this country behave in the most bizarre way. I suppose that if this professor commited mass murder, his courses would probably still be there, because absolutely anyone would immediately understand that publishing a man's work does usually not endorsing his private behavior (as long as the work itself has no relation to his behavior).

Same reason why we still play Chopin's waltzes or read Celine's novels, eventhough both were pathologicaly antisemitics.

Great post. However at the very end I wondered if such an esteemed professor should mention Soviet Union the way he did it. It was a big and diverse country.