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They were never going to let the natural sciences alone. I once did a video about Francisco Ayalla, an elderly, retired Spanish-American biologist at UC-Irvine who was disgraced and barred from campus because he complimented women too lavishly (also did the European thing of kissing on both cheeks upon greeting). The women complained that they felt disrespected (interestingly enough, they complained only after he was very elderly). He had donated 10 million dollars to Irvine out of love for the school (he had successful vineyards in the area). There were two buildings named after him and a variety of scholarships. Not content to force him into retirement in disgrace, the school actually removed his name from the buildings and scholarships he had endowed. I'm 99.9% sure that his money, though, was never returned. It was another heartbreaker out of too many.

Jun 14, 2023
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