10 Geniuses Who Were Shockingly Horrible People

Top 10 Geniuses Who Were Shockingly Horrible People
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When someone is remembered as a genius, little else about them as a person is made public. Why would we care that Einstein cheated on his wife like, all the time? The guy invented gravity, he was awesome!
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10. Bobby Fischer
9. Virginia Woolf
8. Richard Dawkins
7. Aristotle
6. Isaac Newton
5. Thomas Edison
4. Nikola Tesla
3. John Lennon
2. James Cameron
1. Henry Ford
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[@venomlily1651]

He left out something else that made Lennon despicable . Lennon also neglected his first son, Jullian from his previous marriage in favor of the child he had with Yoko, which left emotional scars that his son still carries today .

[@CaptainKirkDiggler]

Don't forget... he used to beat Julian as well.

[@galaxy17gaming89]

@@CaptainKirkDigglernot true

[@CaptainKirkDiggler]

@@galaxy17gaming89 So he just beat his wife?

[@ryanbeaty4893]

If you are looking for perfection in people, you will always be disappointed. If you are looking for a lesson, then you'll always succeed.

[@thesupergreenjudy]

Being imperfect and displaying borderline sociopathic behaviour are two entirely different things

[@RageyRage82]

Bigotry must not be tolerated.

[@ryanbeaty4893]

@@RageyRage82 There are many things that must not be tolerated; abuse, racism, violent crime, etc. But throwing away a whole person because of their worst part is counterproductive. We are all flawed and some worse than others. Some of those awful people do wonderful things and some wonderful people do awful things. Society's inability to think more complexly about this is why we end up disappointed so often with people we think highly of. Best to you.

[@thereoncewasalimerickwriter]

Sometimes recognizing our own faults, especially the ones we consciously conceal, can help us understand the faults that drive other people.

[@thesupergreenjudy]

@@ryanbeaty4893 nobody says that we should throw the whole person away. But at the end of the day people who don't respect boundaries can't expect to have many friends or support in their lives. We all have a personal responsibility to treat others the way we want to be treated. If they really wanted to make an effort there is professional help out there. If someone doesn't take advantage of that then it tells me a lot about that person. Of course not everyone can afford professional help but there are ways of saying "I want to change". Manipulating and abusing people doesn't show you want to change. People have a right to distance themselves from hurt and abuse.

[@seakelp3508]

Thomas Edison didn't invent anything, he employed "Assistants" that invented things (like the incandescent light) then filed the patents under his name thus taking full credit for them.

[@cnocspeireag]

US people often claim Edison invented the incandescent filament light. Swan had it working practically before Edison.

[@dhenderson1810]

He still came up with the initial idea. So they are still his inventions, even if others built the prototype for him. Hell, I have ideas for things, but don't have the know-how to build them or get backing for them, so would need to get others to do it for me. But I would still take patents on it, and pay the people who worked on it, because they did a job for me, but it was my idea, initially.

[@robertgary3561]

That's a bit like saying amazing architecture should be credited to the construction workers who built it.

[@manuelherk3236]

Not true

[@noldo3837]

Yeah, but the general attitude in the US and also in Asia is - praise the victor, and someone who has made business out of it, means are forgotten.

[@dhenderson1810]

Plus John Lennon was horrible to his son, Julian, walked out on him, cut him out of his will, and it took Paul McCartney to write a song to comfort Julian ("Hey Jude"), about his parents' divorce, instead of, maybe Julian's OWN FATHER writing it. Lennon also gave a lot of his fortune to Sean in his will, who he had with Yoko Ono, and Julian got nothing.

[@sandangels73]

The funny thing about Aristotle's beliefs about women being incomplete men is that, genetically, the opposite is true. The Y chromosome (male) is actually missing a bunch of genes that the X chromosome (female) has, which is what causes X-linked genetic disorders such as colorblindness, hemophilia, etc to occur in men but rarely occur in women.

[@chrisQ1000]

Dawkins is right - people (I mean *any* people, people who aren't *someone*) complain about their emotional problems as if they were the most important thing on earth - while other people in other parts of the world would be glad to be even allowed so much as to voice their grievances without fear of their health, safety and even lives.

[@MrDanygonc]

I was thinking the same thing

[@VideoMenu]

Yet Dawkins doesn't troll MRA.

[@Kazeshini25663]

He confuses me. Evolutionary speaking it's survival of the fittest. Self Importance is a natural attribute we have, that is why humbleness and charity must be taught at home during those delightful early years.Yet, he throws his theory out the window to make someone feel bad for caring for themselves Maybe he really was a bit more of a genius, maybe a little pscyhopathic

[@chrisQ1000]

Bohemian Rhapsody I am not talking about legitimate grief, I am talking about "emotional problems" of the kind where people complain that they are stressed out and "traumatized" because they didn't get their accustomed seat in a restaurant or because they had to wait 20 minutes for their taxi to arrive or because someone talked back to them at a parents' meeting - that sort of thing. These people need a hefty dose of reality.

[@OneVoiceMore]

+Lionel Gaucher I wonder if you can hear your seething bigotry. It's a deep ugliness in you.

[@slenderjamman6898]

Every time I hear “James Cameron” all I picture is him in a submarine raising the bar🤣

[@sundevil2295]

😂😂

[@starastro4591]

No ocean too deep no budget too steep watch out here comes james cam er ronnn

[@robc7812]

you mean if we listened to tesla... we wouldnt have to have ever heard of the kardashians... he really was a genius

[@Abd.Allaah]

@Randy Baumery To Rob C.

[@robc7812]

@@Abd.Allaah haha... ok... think you completely missed it... so lets break it down tesla wanted to breed out stupid... the kardashians and people that think they are worth their time... define stupidity... now if youre referring to the fact that you cant actually breed out stupidity... yes its false.... duh wasnt the point of the comment it was satire... dont take things so literally

[@Abd.Allaah]

@@robc7812 Ah, so i am the one who misunderstanding your comment then. Ok, i'm sorry.

[@robc7812]

@@Abd.Allaah haha no worries i speak in fluent sarcasm it doesnt always it doesnt always translate properly into text...

[@FreeminderXIII]

I would really like to agree with Tesla , but unfortunately two smart couples won't necessarily produce a smart person. Life sucks ig

[@gantmj]

I have never seen a top 10 video with so many problems. This will be the first, and only video I watch on this channel.

[@gantmj]

P.S., Feminism poisons everything.

[@gantmj]

***** I don't even remember what this video was about. Apparently is was very sloppy. If it was done badly, what not tell other people about it, and save their time? Or, it might start a discussion about a particular thing that wasn't right. Time spent on something productive isn't wasted.

[@Himaryous]

***** As long as it kills patriarchy I'm satisfied.

[@artmanrom]

:) There it's an old Russian saying:"In every mind,there it's so much stupidity,capable to darken even the most brilliant one.".

[@tundra5171]

While I'm a very "fuck Russia" person, I agree. Smart people are usually insane, in one way or another. Also, salut.

[@dangermartin69]

Lord Arctus Did Russia do something to you? Or do you get your thinking points from Fox News. Also, what qualifies you to make a statement that smart people are usually insane in some way. That sounds like something dumb people would say.

[@vishee2906]

***** i understand your empath friend..most have no comprehension how tiring it is for empaths like us to be around a person that purports to be smart and and berates everyone. social gathering are specially exhaustive.

[@vishee2906]

***** i dont believe the poster ( or Russian quote ) was talking about stupid as in ( one is stupid if they cant spell ) he means stupid as in ( ignorant jackass without reason )

[@zenith8417]

Sounds like a similar quote from Aristotle. "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

[@michaelsmyth6296]

Edison was a genius at taking others work and using his influence and cleverly worded contracts to get. credit. Money talks.

[@JourneywiththeJoyners]

Absolutely what he did to Tesla was ridiculous, with the right backing he could have changed the world even more than he already did

[@777jones]

Kind of like Elon Musk, then.

[@BigErnMcCracken777]

Rich white guys always win bro

[@traciaustin3613]

It does to those with no real.morals

[@Mr.CliffysWorld]

@@BigErnMcCracken777 Tesla wasn't white !?!? Lol

[@deemariedubois4916]

If Virginia Wolfe’s servants hadn’t learned to read, then how would they have been able to read her notes? What a total complete elitist snob.

[@ncm2738]

Indeed, also arrogant as well.

[@voornaam3191]

There is not a single E in Woolf. Are you working class, perhaps? Get me my diary, please. Bunch of fools. If you can't read, take your smartphone, take a picture of the text and say "Hey Goggle, what's written here?" and voilà, you don't need to read a single word, any more. True or not?

[@plaguedoctormasque8089]

Oh you mean Renazikkklans?

[@gabrielaavila4275]

@@voornaam3191 I'm sure you MEANT to misspell "Google"?

[@voornaam3191]

@@gabrielaavila4275 Yes, sure as if you saw it yourself. In Amsterdam (I guess) somebody once stole an O from the Google logo, inside a Google office building. It was a truth or dare challenge and the guy vlogged it. One of the directors explained, they really missed that O, after a couple of days. In fact, it is a piece of art, not just a simple 3d print of the well known logo, and he said thank you, for returning it.

[@JasonNewman3]

This list was really, really stupid. Too much bias and hardly any substance. It was like the FOX News of KZbin lists.

[@JasonNewman3]

And it doesn't help that only maybe half of the people listed were/are geniuses.

[@vincegilbert6236]

Spoken like a true brain dead socialist

[@Cinqmil]

Jason Newman Well, I saw the makers of the video claimed Einstein invented gravity. Says it all really.

[@AdamandAmanda4eve]

Edison killed an elephant too. And Louie LaPrince, the real father of moving pictures, disappeared from a train and Edison magically ends up with Louie’s inventions.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

The elephant is the most known, I hadn't known he killed dogs too.

[@yuumain264]

South Park: "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron IS James Cameron."

[@christophersteele5709]

no ocean to deep, no budget to steep, look out whos that? james cameron

[@davidnikulka1437]

My grandmother used to talk to Henry Ford almost daily having short conversation`s. Yes she was one of the phone operator`s at The ford Motor Company.

[@shaneroper477]

Eugenics huh. Yes, well, looking at the world today, I'd say Tesla was on the right track. That would solve allot of the worlds problems. That thought has crossed my mind too. If humanity is to survive as a species for the next thousand years, we really need to do something about this "stupid" gene.

[@brianwalters6825]

Eugenics is terrible though I do agree that stupid people shouldn't breed BECAUSE their bullshit often becomes the mindset of their children. Times that mindset by hundreds of thousands and good god.

[@lloydgush]

People talk about eugenics like it's the same thing as racism. Also, people get surprised he didn't reproduced, he didn't saw himself fit to reproduce, smart or not he had his quirks he didn't wanted to pass on. (a completely different reason to why he didn't had sex. He wasn't interested in sex, he was more interested in pigeons than people also.)

[@TRtherocknroller]

I was born with cerebral palsy and thus I'm unable to walk without assistance. Shoot me in the head and be done with it right?

[@lloydgush]

TRtherocknroller No. That's not eugenics, that's murder (or suicide if one does to itself, but you get the gist). Now, I consciously choose not to reproduce because I have epilepsy with is inheritable. Eugenics is about reproduction, not murder.

[@TRtherocknroller]

+lloydgush the logic behind eugenics is still the same.

[@fndalves]

To those who are not aware of the horrible abuse suffered By Rebeca Watson, she was on a elevator and a guy said some thing like "hey, don`t take me wrong, but I like you... would you like to come to my place and have some coffee??". what followed is not for the faint hearted, I`m warning you... She said no and the dude left her alone... can you believe it ?? can`t you see the lack of respect?? can`t you see the amount of misogyny?? can`t you see that she was basically raped??? yeah, me neither...

[@SomethingCleverAndOriginal]

fndalves OH MY GAWD D:

[@thesaltyspittoon6867]

Who cares?

[@robbiehoen]

fndalves That's not even close to what i said.

[@robbiehoen]

fndalves Allright, i messed up here. I thought this was a totally different conversation altogether. Please disregard my previous statement.

[@soadfan700]

fndalves #Triggered #2MuchOppression4Me

[@Anglomachian]

To be fair to Newton, the scientific community in his day was essentially like the modern blogosphere. You should try reading about what Darwin had to put up with in his day.

[@DivineMisterAdVentures]

Newton just wanted to be alone. And - he very reluctantly published at the insistence of those who knew his work by letters, and when he did he took great offense at the many trolls and credit claims by those he left behind - there were a lot of those.

[@slapshot0074]

Had the very same argument with a friend regarding John lennon. He was in complete denial about the severity of his actions towards women,tried to feebly defend and was clearly put out by this "inconvenient truth". A classic case of not wanting to accept something simply because they liked their music. Which is preposterous as they are different subjects. Just because you like someone's music doesn't mean you have to be in denial about someone's flaws or criminality or true character.

[@isaacshaver6218]

True that. I had heard the rumors for years that John Lennon basically would SA a girl before going on stage to calm the nerves.....and don't get me started on Jimmy Page. Lol

[@pedrovoss862]

Not only his songs, his ideals are still relevant, but he was a hypocrital.

[@elliottcovert3796]

@@pedrovoss862 He was wildly hypocritical. He kept a temperature-controlled room in the Dakota Hotel (one of the most expensive in New York) purely for the purpose of storing his fur coats. And he paid the rent for that extremely expensive room with the millions he made off "Imagine." Oh, the irony!

[@ronmaest]

@TopTenz You're lost me when you went after Dawkins and defended that shrill, Rebecca Watson. Now I know where you stand at.

[@scotty]

John Lennon was not a horrible person. Neither is Richard Dawkins. They had/have friends and meant a lot to a lot of people and their contributions immeasurable. There place in history is set. They may not be flawless they are after all human and therefore changing and dealing with imperfection but they are worthy of admiration and have made a very positive influence. People aren't doing bad things because of them on the contrary they have inspired much good.

[@mafiablokes]

So it's ok for him to beat women?

[@scotty]

Ragsy x learn how to read.

[@mafiablokes]

scotty​ I guess you see things differently to me. For me, If a persons beats a person they're meant to love then they're a BAD person, not just "flawed" like you put it, despite other things they may have achieved. 

[@scotty]

Ragsy x I never heard of Cynthia, Yoko, or May speak of being beat up by John. I heard of Hendrix and Brian Jones hitting women, Brian Jones apparently habitually, but nothing like that about John. I'd say back in the 50's it might have been more common there's that Billy Holiday song about it, it was way back when, it was also during what would have been John's adolescence. The only evidence of John hitting that I'm aware of is by his own confession and his first girl friend saying he hit here just once when she wouldn't put out so she split it off. He didn't rape her or beat her up, and there are plenty of girls who've been slapped by lovers or friends during the turmoils of a stressed relationship. I'm not proud of his behavior he wasn't either he'd said he'd changed and he was one of the first men to come out for women's rights and to strive to change how women where being treated. Perhaps he felt bad about it. Then again there's nothing from any of his long term relationships nor anything from anyone else who might have witnessed something. Nothing from his kids, friends, colleges or acquaintances. If it's true and to the extent you may imagine it it is a sad thing but it doesn't diminish the great things he did for everyone and he has made the world a whole lot better for many of us.

[@lesterclaypool1]

scotty John Lennon is a thief. He stole from Frank Zappa, among others. Cynthia Lennon discussed John beating her and being cruel to Julian in her book.

[@RubyTuesdayJB]

Richard Dawkins Reading hate mail is still one of the funniest things I’ve watched haha

[@debbiehenri345]

Oh, it's a classic. I go back to rewatch that one occasionally. Perfect for brightening up a rainy afternoon in lockdown.

[@ShaunaAllen-qn6lt]

I feel Dawkins may be on the autism spectrum. He appears to lack empathy, normal human emotions and lack of concern for others.

[@margo3073]

I watched every clip with R Dawkins in,and I simply do NOT believe this incident occurred.He is a kind man,real gentleman.

[@guybarritt8632]

The Dawkins bit baffled me - it seemed more like some kind of personal attack by Simon Whistler. He can be controversial on Twitter, but I certainly wouldn't regard him as anything like a terrible person.

[@margo3073]

@@guybarritt8632 exactly.

[@ChickSage]

I remember reading about Edison having a contest and offering a cash prize to the winner, but then refused to pay the cash prize to the winner. The person who won the contest and got stiffed by Edison, was Tesla, who was also the same person who invented a better form of electricity than Edison and the same person who Edison tried to discredit by electrocuting animals to death. Small world. peace

[@robertgary3561]

That doesn't seem right. Tesla was his employee for a long time. I don't think he would have randomly entered an Edison contest.

[@ChickSage]

@@robertgary3561 it's been awhile since read about it but it was Tesla who claimed that Edison said he'd pay $50K to the assistant who made his dynamo more efficient. When Tesla succeeded and asked for the $ Edison told him it was a joke. It's the reason Tesla quit working for Edison.

[@davidholtz3885]

Don't forget Edison was a Satanist. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but it's still worse than stealing ideas.

[@ChickSage]

@@davidholtz3885 What? lol No, he was not a satanist. He was very clear and on the record about what his beliefs were. Anyway, isn't stealing worse than being a satanist. It's not a crime to be a satanist.

[@davidholtz3885]

@@ChickSage it makes him a scumbag

[@Knapweed]

Edison didn't just electrocute puppies, he also electrocuted an elephant in public (video available on KZbin of the atrocity) and, more importantly, invented the electric chair. He didn't invent it as a humane means of electrocution, he invented it as a bloody awful way to die in order to trash A.C. When I say 'invent', he didn't actually invent anything, he either stole the idea or one of his underpaid, overworked staff invented it and he capitalised on it. He was a complete arsehole by any measure.

[@kwillow12]

He was pretty awful.

[@anafindlay1696]

Well said, Edison was a vile little man just evil!!!

[@darlenel9226]

Awww Topsy

[@victorsamuleson9505]

You should've mentioned that he stole everything I agree he took all his inventions from the people work for him and then claimed it as his own

[@jeffjadrich8464]

I thought the electric chair was invented by a dentist.

[@Eleiseify]

Tesla was right: Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed.

[@VladTheImpalerTepesIII]

All you have to do is look around. No way that thought can't cross your mind.

[@roncur]

serial killers shouldn't be allowed to breed

[@johnc8910]

But who decides?

[@VladTheImpalerTepesIII]

John Casteel Apparently, Tesla decides.

[@inchaoswetrust]

starting with this channel

[@beverleystreet6652]

I recently heard that Lennon was a completely different person once he had a few drinks...he became very belligerent. The same was true of Johnny Carson.

[@ChristmasLore]

Alcohol does that to way too many men...

[@747Antman]

And women too. It’s the alcohol, hence health warnings

[@None-zc5vg]

Why blame the alcohol? :drinkers use it as an excuse to let their frustration and malignancy out of the box.

[@frankmaeder4358]

@@None-zc5vg True. Way back in the 80s, i was a very heavy drinker. but already then, i always said, alcohol may be an explanation, but never ever use it as an excuse. i never got malignant or aggressive, even when completely pissed rotten. may also have to do with the basic character of a person.

[@robertgary3561]

Carson was nearly always armed with a holstered pistol. One night he started breaking into hotel rooms looking for someone he thought was sleeping with his wife. He was pretty gangester.

[@updownstate]

I practiced self-eugenics. One of the reasons I didn't have children is bc I and a slew of relatives have hard-core mental illness. I wouldn't visit it on anyone I loved.

[@lmerlot4328]

That's a pretty sane statement.😉

[@futuraguysuntzuphilosophy7181]

The word mental illness can be used on anyone you don’t like or have an alternative view of life. Just excuses for not having understanding or enlightenment.

[@lmerlot4328]

@@futuraguysuntzuphilosophy7181 Not really, there actually are individuals whose mental state is imbalanced which is real issue. The ones involved like family members or intimate partners suffer more than the mentally disturbed one believe it or not.

[@updownstate]

@@denisequinn9015 Schizophrenia doesn't make ppl evil.

[@Plus-EV-111]

@@updownstate It doesn't help

[@Effingbaddude]

Can you imagine being the first soldier having to tell his commander he discovered the picture of Henry Ford in Hitlers' office hanging in a place of honor?

[@alexandercanella4479]

It probably wouldnt have been that suprising considering he already had car plants in Nazi Germany and 20 years before WW2 wrote a series of antisemantic books.

[@CallowTv]

Interesting, but the part about Richard Dawkins was very baised and one sided.

[@videogamebomer]

Well he can be a dick at times. But he's still smart.

[@scarred10]

videogamebomer dawkins is neither a genius nor a horible person but has been guilty of arrogance and insensitivity.

[@matthewlaurence3121]

Agreed. They could have made a stronger case there: Dawkins has done a few dickish things, but that is not really trying.

[@SuperSquishface]

scarred10 No. You forget the actual scientist Dawkins. You know the word "meme"? Well he invented it & wrote a book on it about cultural transitions of views & acts amongst many others. The man is a genius. I dislike this list for a great deal of reasons whilst not defending most people, but I will say Dawkins as a person does appear to be a douche. Still a fucking genius.

[@SuperSquishface]

***** Just the sense I've gotten from a few interviews, one in particular in Australia he was very rude. I'm on his side I just think he can be an asshole. But this list is a sham anyways.

[@davidpatterson3612]

Hooke is not forgotten. Microscopy and cell biology rest on Hooke's shoulders.

[@fredflintstone2833]

Hooke's Law in Physics was formulated by him.

[@ShoJ369]

They were all horrible people. John Lenton sold his soul to the devil. He also abandoned his son Julian, and left him nothing, on top of beating women. Gee I wonder, where he is today ?

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

John Lennon was all about humanitarian thoughts but in addition to hitting women he treated his oldest son as if he didn't exist & was usually mean to people in person.

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Excellent video!

[@HarpoSpoke]

Not the mention that "riches are bad" attitude in his music...but he never thought it was bad for HIM to be rich.

[@patrickbanish8154]

true

[@Filip_Wessman]

Imagines a world without possessions. Lives in a luxury mansion. Nuf said.

[@scottfoxl7431]

John was mad at the world since his mother's senseless death when he was 17. He held it inside and it ate at him for over a decade till he wrote "Julia" in tribute to her. When he smiled at the nation on the Ed Sullivan show, I bet he was thinking of her. Anyhow, as much as I despise Yoko, I have to give her credit for making him face reality about her. Cynthia wasn't a strong enough woman. In his last days, he was the happiest he'd ever been, according to Yoko, and a fan witnessed the encounter between him and Mark Chapman. She said John couldn't have been any nicer to him. So sad for a man to get shot 5 times in the back after he'd turned his life around.

[@TheChodex]

If Tesla had kid or a wife we wouldn't have the technology we have today. He dedicated 100% of his life to science, he even reduced sleeping and eating to minimum. His mind and visions were above the average, so i am not surprised that you view him as horrible person. :)

[@VideoMenu]

Your comment suggests your comprehension for why Tesla is on the list is ZERO. Ironic considering we're talking about intelligence here. (Hint: Tesla is not on the list because he didn't have a family.)

[@QueenlySweetpea]

+Danilo Novakovic .. Looks like you missed the part about Tesla trying to play God in eugenics, that's a dangerous thing to bring to humanity, it could have far reaching devestaions & unimagined unforeseen harm wrought upon the population at large ..

[@BlackQback]

What did Tesla actually DO about eugenics? Please pay homage to Tesla by not reproducing. Could have, might have been... I guess all you know about Tesla is what you overheard in this video. You didn't even pay attention. Or describe just how Tesla was "trying to play God".

[@1973jfox]

My favorite part is how the video describes how awful these people were then adds, “for those of you too lazy to open another tab google it...”

[@brianedwards7142]

I've always read Norwegian Wood this way: Lennon goes home with a girl who doesn't put out so when he wakes up he makes a fire out of her furniture. I always preferred Paul anyway.

[@AnneOhn123]

hahaha... Lennon was weird, abusive towards women and in fact was a hard core communist.... think about his song "Imagine"... it's about a communist world...

[@brianedwards7142]

@@AnneOhn123 I've always loved Maxwell's Silver Hammer as a bit of black humour but what if it isn't.

[@Rakven]

You know, being talented and being a genius is not the same thing.

[@LividImp]

Clearly the writer was not a genius. They should have just went with "famous people" instead of "geniuses".

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

You've totally misunderstood Dawkins, but I can't even be bothered to try to explain why.

[@MrTRUCID0]

No please dazzle us all with your superior intellect!

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

***** I don't claim to have superior intellect though I am educated. I can't be bothered because I'm guessing you are religious. If you are religious then you are not rational and if you are not rational then there is no point in me trying to explain to you why Dawkins is not a horrible person, and as there is no point, I can't be bothered trying - OK?

[@MrTRUCID0]

Well you are correct. I am a Christian. However the argument that people of religious faith are not rational is pathetic rhetoric that is used to avoid an actual discussion. I don't refute or reject scientific discovery. I am open to learning what makes the universe what it is. I am not irrational because I believe that something exists that we can't understand on a scientific level. I am not so simple minded that I can not integrate science with the possibility of the super natural Believing that man possesses the capacity to disprove the existence of the supernatural is very irrational considering our extremely limited knowledge of the universe. Also the maker of this video did not say Dwakins was a bad person because he doesn't believe in God. He siad that instead of educating people he became an internet troll who spews hatred (which is exactly what he is). He also said that he is a sexist creep (which he is)...OK? Also why write comments if you "can't be bothered"?

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

***** I'm beginning to wish I had'nt commented, I did so because I did'nt like this very negative posting that personally attacks people for no apparent reason other than to be unpleasantly smart-arsed. John Lennon, (not here to defend himself) made no secret of the mental health problems and personal demons that afflicted him, even alluding to them in some of his songs. He was no saint, but then he never claimed to be one of those did he? I don't believe that man has the capacity to disprove the existance of the super-natural, how can anyone prove that something does NOT exist? Now if you (or anybody, anywhere, ever) could prove that the super-natural (an oxymoron in my opinion) DOES exist, then I might begin to accept the possibility of the existence of a God or Gods, but you can't, so I don't. OK?

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

***** I know nobody has to prove anything to me in order to justify their beliefs. I only challenged you (or anyone else) to prove the existence of the supernatural in response to your assertion that - "Believing that man posesses the capacity to disprove the existence of the supernatural is very irrational". I don't care if you believe in the tooth fairy, but when you try to characterise your belief as just as valid and deserving of just as much respect as knowledge derived from rigorous, empirical scientific observation, then I feel you should be challenged. As for Dawkins and Lennon (neither of whom you've ever personally met I'll bet) being respectively a 'sexist creep' and 'scum' - well perhaps, after all they're just poor, human creatures, but you claim to be a Christian, so have some humility and forgive them.

[@arg1051]

For the record, Robert Hooke was as bad as Isaac Newton when it came to arguing and bickering. Also, Hooke contributed in many different fields; elsewhere in physics we have Hooke's law, which relates the force due to the displacement of a spring under ideal circumstances, he observed cells with a microscope, was a proponent of evolution, suggested the wave theory of light, and on and on and on. It's a shame Hooke and Newton weren't better people.

[@shadara5370]

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[@accam6734]

It’s hard to take this list seriously when the video you promoted at the end was “The top 10 reasons you should respect Nickleback.”

[@imSUPPRESED]

Lmao omg I don't think I've heard anything I'd wanna watch less 😂

[@AnneOhn123]

hahahahaha

[@MrKolsyrad]

HOW, is asking someone to come back to their room '' sexism ''? If he had DEMANDED it, or freaked out on her for saying no, then yes. But simply asking isn't sexist........ Even if he had said it flat out '' Do you want to sleep with me? ''. That STILL wouldn't have been sexist o.O...

[@locutusdborg126]

Kolsyrad Mcluvin Turns out the elevator guy was gay, and was just a fan who was a bit awkward in social skills. Watson drew the wrong conclusion and became a star because of it.

[@wratched]

Locutus D'Borg She never would have become "a star" as a result if Dawkins hadn't posted on her page.

[@dankburgers]

Kolsyrad Mcluvin Not sure how it's sexist or even harassment. Asking a woman out, to have a drink or come back to your room, it's a proposition. If the woman says no and the man repeatedly asks or pressures the woman, then yes that is harassment. Watson is just a dipshit attention seeker.

[@andyjs2008]

Kolsyrad Mcluvin Apparently, someone's emotional reaction to the proposition is all that's required to make it sexist and harassment (according to femanazis). And calling it out like this will make us "horrible people". This video is a f&%$ing joke.

[@locutusdborg126]

Money Equals Debt But it turned out he was a gay fan of hers who just wanted to talk, so she completely misread the situation.

[@renekvienna2795]

honestly...richard dawkins???...wtf???!?

[@thomasblue6064]

Being humble is a term that these people and many others know nothing of. Thanks

[@squidtender]

"We wouldn't have reality TV". That's a bad thing? The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

[@jamie2487]

oof

[@roxanneweichinger9318]

😂👍

[@Catlady-mw4en]

Virginia Wolfe and Tesla would agree. I think this video thoroughly illustrated how snobs, particularly intellectual snobs, can be worst kind of people.

[@Catlady-mw4en]

@John brenot you sweet little Nazi, my reproduction years will be over way before 2100.

[@sk33t_38]

Do you not realize how much of a slippery slope eugenics is? If eugenics existed you wouldnt of been born anyways.

[@stonecold007]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Buddha

[@eatthisvr6]

@Scott Laux its shockingly bad isnt it!

[@pinkfloydand3c]

And the truth shall let you free :)

[@eatthisvr6]

@@pinkfloydand3c much better than work shall set you free

[@lawrencesumblin3325]

@Scott Laux "truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Set it loose And it will defend itself" St. Augustine.

[@Thunder_Dome45]

How can a guy weigh over 700lbs and still have the guts to talk about self discipline? -Anger Management

[@Jimmyduudah]

Hmm the not so little rant about Dawkins makes me think the person or persons behind this list have taken some kind of personal dislike to Dawkins and allowed that to skew their choices for the list. So we're basically just getting an opinion. One that's really not worth anything more than any other in the comments below and we all know how worthless youtube comments are.

[@alexwr]

Isn't pretty much every top 10 list an opinion? Just saying...

[@Jimmyduudah]

Alex Wilson They are not all biased opinions though...

[@alexwr]

That's exactly what opinions are, expressing our bias towards whatever. What are they if not our bias?

[@Jimmyduudah]

Alex Wilson Perhaps you should try giving objective opinions rather than biased ones, if you think all opinions are biased. Never heard of an objective opinion? Don't understand the concept of being fair in your assessments of people? Not all opinions are biased.

[@alexwr]

Absolutely opinions should be objective if possible, however bias is always there again, if possible. An opinion can be objective and biased.

[@bh5606]

He thinks John Lennon was a genius?

[@roonilwazlib3089]

Indeed... left

[@jean-luccommeau2840]

"It's not because you suffer more, that I suffert less" JLC 1988.

[@vashna3799]

Richard Dawkins is NOT a shockingly horrible person, casual sexist comment or not.

[@lawgeek9276]

+Storm Hawk I would have to agree with you. It's not horrible to criticize religion. Just as it's not horrible to criticize atheism and make a case for god. (I can't believe they included that). I think his comment was was less sexist than it was thoughtless and belittling - one's opinion is not invalid merely because someone, somewhere is suffering worse. But one can be wrong about these things, even a jerk and not be a 'horrible person'.

[@vashna3799]

The prat who's narrating this clearly as a chip on his religious shoulder towards atheists.

[@johnrandall125]

FACT: Frank Zappa and Nikola Tesla were never seen in the same room together!

[@blackvic5157]

"FACT: Frank Zappa and Nikola Tesla were never seen in the same room together!" Nor was I.

[@thequestion2324]

Fact no one can account for Frank Zappa's werabouts the night Lincoln or pac was shot

[@bacht4799]

Too bad it’s would been ELECTRIC.. ha ha .. I let myself out

[@emojiking8580]

John Randall That’s funny, I sat in the Announcers box at the NORWOOD ARENA WITH Jonny Most when I was five years old !!! In 1964

[@halbiggiam3320]

Who you jiving with that cosmic debris...✨🎶🎸⚡

[@carrickedward7373]

James Cameron also hired a team of engineers to build him a super fancy submersible and then touted it as his success.

[@melanieomer9186]

That submersible he didn’t build-he took it to Challenger Deep, a trip so dangerous that it had only been done once before. So maybe he didn’t do anything but “drive” it, but that took an unbelievable amount of guts. Genius, idk, but a super-intense man.

[@tanyagraves156]

I thought you were talking about geniuses. Not people that were bullies just because they thought they were geniuses.

[@gratefulila9980]

😂😂😂

[@iranianintelligenceagency9337]

You can't deny some of these people are geniuses. Just because they're bad people doesn't mean you have to deny reality bruh

[@ap8409]

You're kind of loose with the term "Genius"

[@RahaFarokh]

And the word "horrible"

[@roberttelarket4934]

Alan P: Thank you!!! Precisely!!! Jobs I don't think so. Very very very far from it!!!

[@lalinda7219]

HAHAHAHAHA! AGREED!

[@Ballardian]

Yeah, I wouldn't call James Cameron a genius.

[@Ballardian]

@@Lemmy Winks , I think you're confusing popularity with genius, and by that logic Justin Bieber is also a genius. You've told me nothing about why Cameron's a genius other than his box office returns. That makes him a businessman not a genius.

[@danceswithbears2521]

Edison killed puppies?? That's REALLY evil!! :( :( :(

[@danceswithbears2521]

***** Descartes tortured dogs and laughed when they yipped and screamed in pain. He thought it was just a reflex.

[@LindaBkrWms]

yes he did and he electrocuted an elephant to death to prove his direct curent electricity was superior to alternating current... so freaking weird the victorian era crowd cheered while the elephant died.

[@baptisttocatholic3568]

LindaBkrWms I lie not, some time I can't understand y God love us. What love is this? O, what mercy is this.

[@LindaBkrWms]

baptist to catholic today i woke up thinking of what a wicked person I am... ( I got to drinking too much on sunday evening with the neigbors and miss represented Jesus. I feel so ugly and a fool. Still I heard a small voice say," you are like a lamb. I still do not understand what a wicked person I am and Jesus still sees me as a lamb...

[@baptisttocatholic3568]

LindaBkrWms There will be disappointment and failing in us (me) the mystical body and in this we are instrument of his love and in forgiving. All saint stumble and at time make fools of us all. It call becoming a saint. God is good. peace.

[@stevenboykin116]

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron, James Cameron does what James Cameron does because he is James Cameron

[@ShredwardWizardhands]

Dawkins tried to get a girl to go back to his room. I fail to see how that makes him a bad human.

[@leejay1936]

You're sidestepping his rampant sexism to hold this line.

[@stephenmcqually2983]

Dawkins. If you want to see a uniquely self unaware human watch the Denton interview

[@deltanovember1672]

Dawkins is a legend.

[@stephenmcqually2983]

@@deltanovember1672 congratulations on missing the whole point of the video

[@deltanovember1672]

@@stephenmcqually2983 😂 whoooosh.

[@funtimes1427]

I thought Lennon was on the list because he abandoned his first born son

[@AuroraBoarder1]

He also beat his first son's mother, Cynthia. In addition, he made insulting comments to the press, saying 90% of babies are born out of a bottle.

[@klientproby]

Lennon, like a lot of celebrities full of themselves, was a horrid person and so fake. By all accounts, he was a bully and absolutely awful to his women. So when I read accounts of how Yoko Ono bullied and bossed him about, I just chuckle and think, Karma, mate, karma!!

[@nickc6583]

And he wasn't a genius

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

he was a musical genius @@nickc6583

[@norseko]

A hypocrite espoused love but afforded little to some nearest in his life.

[@alw1403]

Read the numbers on "likes" and "dislikes" and explain your own unpopularity.

[@mattporter8698]

***** haha nice that shut this guy up lol

[@ancientphoenixians]

***** It's laughable you'd consider Dawkins "evil". You might gain popularity through this, but hey there is fame in infamy.

[@daemonryuou4849]

***** You put him on a list of top 10 most horrible people for something that he had said which was taken out of context. He was sarcastically mocking her for not caring about real sexism. Feminists want to fight about stupid things like not allowing gay white men to talk like black women, or banning clapping because it causes anxiety. Despite this, he still apologized about the letter because it was offensive. Feminists have an EXTREMELY bad habit of taking things out of context, misrepresenting information, or blatantly making crap up to victimize themselves and persecute others. A lot of the time, the topic involved has absolutely nothing to do with sexism. Atheists tend to butt heads with feminists because creationists also play the victim card and disregard important issues.

[@LordofFungi]

Daemon Ryuou It's not a big deal for a man to hit a woman, so much as it is for a woman to hit a man.

[@wyattf.3837]

***** are you serious even getting a thousand views is a lot getting 100,000 is an insane amount You will most likely not even meet 100,000 people in your life time and seriously the majority of the billion videos only get about 100 views or less so I suggest you not complain

[@01DB]

Lennon "taking enough drugs to cause sniffer dogs early retirement" best quote I've heard for ages 😂🤣😂

[@abenvindos]

People have flaws. That don't make us horrible. The ones who expect perfection from others will always be disappointed. They demands others no to do the same mistakes they do. The forgiveness they demand for their flaws is denied for the others.

[@morrigambist]

You missed a classic example: Richard Wagner. In addition to inventing music drama, he had affairs with other men's wives and wrote a nasty anti-Semitic tract which influenced Hitler, who was a great fan of his work. A thoroughly disagreeable character.

[@70mjc]

Blake Morris but not an all time worst

[@blackswan4486]

Was just going to say they left Wagner, my favorite composer and one of my least favorite humans , out of it.

[@myaccountishacked6417]

Am I the only person who doesnt like Wagner's music?

[@blackswan4486]

Blaydes No, a lot of people don’t like him. His music can be awfully dreary. Even I don’t like some of his stuff.

[@myaccountishacked6417]

Was just wondering as all I see on social media, documentaries and even interviews of Jews who escaped the holocaust saying that he was a music genius, even though they didn't agree with his sentiments about eugenics or whatever hatred he was spewing. I dont actually like any of his music. It's all too simplistic and I dont hear anything unique about it. He could have been mother Theresa and I'd still hate the music...

[@GirGir183]

43.5% of those that voted gave this vid a thumbs down. That's the briefest way I can think of to make my point here.

[@GirGir183]

***** But if you look at the votes for and against on most normal youtube videos, you'll see that once you've shown enough interest in a subject to click on a video, it must be something you're a fan of. Very few videos will get a 44% negative vote. And majority rules doesn't mean they're right. If that was the case then teenage girls' opinion on Justin Bieber would mean that he's probably better than Rossini or Mozart.

[@GirGir183]

Is popularity reflected in the amt of views, or the percent of those that voted on it positively? I think most people should know by now how randomly people use superlatives in youtube videos. As in "The funniest prank ever" etc etc. The very phrase "Top Ten" has a superlative implied on an ongoing basis. Also, eugenics still gets a bad press to this day. If you had the male with the highest IQ in the same room as the female with the highest IQ I think they should have a kid together. The resultant human could well have the highest IQ yet known. Who knows what benefit to mankind he could deliver. And Socrates couldn't have beaten Aristotle to the punch at anything. He just died about 15 years b4 Aristotle was born, which is not the same thing. Btw, what country do you come from? I can't quite place the accent. My guess is Australia.

[@ericguerraribeiro73]

Selinor578 Just so you know Like=Dislikes for youtube. Both help the video get shown to everyone.

[@jonlesliehaynes]

I don't even understand what the thumbs up or the thumbs down vote actually means. Does it mean you don't like the video because you think the content is inaccurate or does it mean you think the quality of the video was poor or does it mean you don't think the video was helpful or relative to the title? It's not a decent barometer of anything.

[@GirGir183]

bluhousworker I think it just means you liked the video or you didn't like it, for whatever reason you may have.

[@skycloud4802]

Not getting married and not having children makes you a horrible person?

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

A lucky one !

[@roonilwazlib3089]

Yes

[@smokejaguar67]

No, it makes you an amaziing person

[@AT-ytinvasive]

It's believed he was gay. That's why he didn't marry and have kids.

[@adlockhungry304]

“Dances with Blue Aliens”!!!! I literally laughed out loud (LLOL)!

[@boxbreaker2011]

What's wrong with the "God Delusion"? Also....you're defending Rebecca Watson? No wonder you got so many dislikes.

[@premchand828]

+Zer0dog More SJWs as well

[@bense7enreilly]

Have no idea who Pat Robetson is. It is a very prejuidice book, it says blacks are evolved from apes and it encourages insulting religion, which actually has morals. Fred Phelps was smarter than any scientist could be, p.s. homophobia isn't discrimination.

[@alejoSOTOful]

+boxbreaker2011 He really seems angry at Dawkings

[@varonkc]

Give me any of Dawkins assertions about religion and I can counter them in four sentences or less.

[@premchand828]

Varon Cook Dawkins, and other New Atheists, claim that religious belief motivated the 9/11 terrorists. There. Counter that in 4 sentences or more if you want.

[@samsmith1580]

This is definitely in my top ten worst top ten videos.

[@samsmith1580]

Yeah baby. Own it.

[@_XR40_]

+TopTenz Actually, I think the biggest problem with this video is that it shows just how casually the word "genius" gets tossed around these days. And the comment section shows just how little people _really_ want to know about the characters they idolize.

[@jonathanharris9924]

asking a woman up to your room late at night is not sexist. some women come onto men. all you have to do is say no.

[@MyAirsoftRealm]

...and we were so close to living in a reality-show free society!

[@earlefrost5512]

AC/DC should have done a song about the Tesla/Edison feud!!

[@oogrooq]

Tesla did: "Man out of Time".

[@oogrooq]

*Edison's Medicine

[@jonathanrobertson3406]

Nice!

[@emilyadams3228]

Talk about a Powerage. Too bad Edison & Tesla never reconciled, they might have formed a special BONd.

[@Sr19769p]

Hahahaa! Nice

[@RizzyKhaos]

Dawkins = Sexist? LOL

[@SuperSquishface]

Abba Okoro Idiot^^^

[@itkapatanka]

8:34 You forgot the most important bit after killing puppies, and killing an elephant, he designed the electric chair.

[@user-pg7uj4bp4q]

they'll say aw Topsy at my autopsy

[@sampsonsimpson1040]

Kind of ironic how horrible it is to kill puppies but the vast majority of the people who are shocked literally pay others to kill animals that they eat every day of their lives.

[@kimbarnett4113]

@@sampsonsimpson1040 and needlessly wear or use that animal that was used for testing.Wise words you wrote.

[@xenos_n.]

The shocking lack of Blaze in Simon's early work is disturbing.

[@TairyHesticles]

Dawkins acted horribly in the comment sections one time, you guys. He's a horrible person.

[@TairyHesticles]

Hey there, friend!

[@Hannah-ks5fn]

Good to see ya!

[@imagomonkei]

Tairy Hesticles That and he's just a jerk in general. He thinks cannibalism is acceptable human behavior.

[@TairyHesticles]

Source? And context?

[@Hannah-ks5fn]

Cillendor Edenion You can't make outrageous claims like that without giving a source.

[@smallman9787]

Richard Dawkins, lol Eh, I see what Nikola Tesla meant And with Henry Ford I laughed my head off

[@soulfallsleader2007]

i hav heard of henry ford

[@soulfallsleader2007]

hitler could have been avoided, but no...the guy that was about to shoot him did not shoot him and let him get away

[@smallman9787]

SoulFalls Girl I know, but I also know that there were much more horrible people than hitler, and I laugh every time he's mentioned

[@soulfallsleader2007]

lol

[@soulfallsleader2007]

yeah it did

[@01DB]

Tesla's idea of eugenics isn't fanciful, it's a concept humans should adopt a lot sooner than 2100

[@sherry5667]

“I used to be cruel to my woman. I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean but, I’m changing that scene and doing the best that I can.”. Beatles. Hidden message?

[@IJustWantToUseMyName]

Not too hidden. Lennon admitted in the mentioned Playboy interview that it was about how he treated women: “It is a diary form of writing. All that "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically -- any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am not violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”

[@beboppalooka9897]

Lennon's woman-beating wasn't a secret to any half-hearted Beatles' fan: he talked about it openly in his lyrics. In "You Can't Do That" he threatens to knock the girl out if she is unfaithful. In "Run For Your Life" he literally says he will kill her. In their later 'peace & love' days he changes his tune so to speak, in his lyrics: "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved... man I was mean but I'm changing my scene, and I'm doing the best that I can". It is his past that he attributes to his attitude towards peace and love, sort of a change of perspective from a life that he deeply regretted. He wasn't exactly a hypocrite; he was open about it and did not return to those ways.

[@HeroicGamerCrew]

Lennon was far more than just a woman-beater. I've had to do a lot of research on the Beatles and from what I've seen he was a horrible person hiding behind a facade. He really only cared about himself and nobody else, he was both a horrible father and husband, he was incredibly competitive to the point where he would even down-talk his own friends just to feel beter about himself, He felt artistically superior to just about everyone and he was naive as all hell. But he was just about the most loved person on the planet, so why would the media care, right? Hell, I'm pretty sure the man was a complete psychopath, but he hid it so well, nobody ever noticed.

[@rappinneallyp]

Oh yes, and when he says "You better hide your head in the sand, little girl..." he's actually telling a female toddler to literally put her head inside sand so no one can see it. And "that's the end" LITERALLY LITERALLY LITERALLYLITERALLY means "I am going to murder a girl for being with another man"; it couldnt POSSIBLY mean "that's the end of our relationship," or something similar because then I wouldnt have anything cool to talk about at parties! I context do good. Either listen to "Run for Your Life" again or look up the word "literally." Oh, yeah. Also, "Im gonna let you down, and leave you flat" LITERALLY means he's going to run a girl over with a bulldozer. Wow.

[@Marceloloeite]

Nelroy Now that's a butthurt lennon lover

[@rappinneallyp]

Coca-Cola® Official Maybe he was a pretty shitty guy and a "psychopath" and yes that would disappointment me, but the misinterpretation of those particular lyrics bug me more. I'm more butt-hurt about people confusing their own "critical thinking skills" with their misunderstanding of art in general.

[@melissagerber7231]

Excuse my naïveté ee, but I always thought leaving someone flat, was just an expression, meaning walking out on someone.. May I refer to Chad and Jeremy's song lyrics, from Evil Hearted Me: " I don't care if she leaves me flat! I've got forty-seven others, if it comes to that." Clearly, he isn't saying that he wouldn't care if she ran him over with a bulldozer. I suppose that the original poster believes that Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clare, is really about pedophiliac sex with a three-year-old.

[@Pandonodrim]

Your criticism of Dawkins is astoundingly shallow and poorly researched. Even if what you said were the whole story, it hardly qualifies him as a "shockingly horrible person." Not only did Dawkins apologize about trivializing by comparison (he's written a whole article about it actually) but Rebecca Watson's incident hardly qualifies as harassment or sexism of any kind. She was simply propositioned, and in what sounds like a pretty polite manner. Harassment is a problem, yes, but simply propositioning someone doesn't qualify - particularly in a polite manner (which "asking up for coffee" certainly seems to qualify). Are we just supposed to stop ever pursuing people we find attractive? I guarantee you if Watson had found that man attractive and wanted to have sex with him that she never would have complained about it. This fanatical feminism stuff is going way too far.

[@Pandonodrim]

***** Newton's rivalry was also likely taken too far, but again: "shockingly horrible person?" I think not.

[@orionmelton3226]

Dawkins still encourages people to be dicks to creationists.

[@Pandonodrim]

Orion Melton I fail to see how that is, in the slightest, "shockingly horrible" or even unwarranted.

[@orionmelton3226]

***** It's prejudicial. You can like a man's work without liking the man himself. I don't hate atheists and call them idiots.

[@Pandonodrim]

You're that special kind of stupid, aren't ya?

[@howardpope3932]

John Lennon is also supposed to have hit his first son Julian numerous times when Julian was a child. And Lennon is also reported to have beaten other men for example two sailors in Hamburg. One of them he hit so hard that Lennon didn´t know, if the other man survived the fight. The other sailor he tried to rob - together with the other Beatles.Lennon also claimed that he had beaten the "fifth Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe, so hard that Lennon afterwards believed that this could have caused Sutcliffes early death. (I´ve also read that there is the theory that Lennon confused things in his memory and in reality hit someone else than Sutcliffe but of course that wouldn´t make Lennon to appear to had been a more likeable person.)

[@evanpowers6045]

Julian denied John hit him

[@howardpope3932]

@@evanpowers6045 Thank you for the information. I find this interesting. Maybe those stories were just made up.

[@evanpowers6045]

@@howardpope3932 They are it’s true he could be verbally aggressive but, my parents and most parents can be and I never heard he beat up 2 sailors, if he were to hit Julian he would’ve said so in interviews

[@karlinchina]

A slightly longer list and we could have Steve Jobs on there.

[@megancrager4397]

Bill Gates too. He's just more subtle than the others with his awfulness

[@darndirtydogbob5205]

This is a list of geniuses, not idiots that died because they didn't take their medicine

[@sk33t_38]

@@darndirtydogbob5205 HAHAHAHAHA

[@Dentropolis]

And Zimmerman...

[@vajra1171]

& Jeff Bezos..

[@Mzansi74]

Bottom line: We should not put people on pedestals. And the true heroes and geniuses are not recorded in history.

[@teemusid]

+Martin de Lange The problem is that almost everybody, at some point in their life, needs to draw some inspiration from another person's triumph over adversity. Can you manage to use their story without putting them on a pedestal? Do we 'need them on that pedestal?' I'm actually asking the question, because I like the idea of heroes, but I have a hard time excusing nasty behavior.

[@Mzansi74]

+teemusid I have not thought about it that way. Are you saying: Embrace the genius, but shun bad behaviour.

[@teemusid]

+Martin de Lange If you can, but to feel that inspirational fire, you have to identify with the source, and in doing so, you will likely forge an emotional bond with the person(s) that inspire you. To quote Admiral Ackbar, "It's a trap!"

[@metroboomin3409]

Kinda like how some people ignore the bad things people do when its someone they like like a celebrity?

[@mr.tuesday1618]

Kind of... don't use top tens to interpret history though, or you're in for a lot of embarrassing conversations with people who actually know a thing or two. (this video paints a wildly inaccurate picture of most of the people in it)

[@johnmontag]

I don't think that Nikola Tesla could be a total ass. He chose to tear up his patents so the power company he worked for could stay afloat. Those patents would still be making his family billions.

[@deadshepherd666]

I don't think the point here is to defame anyone's character, just to put their accomplishments and eccentricities in perspective.

[@jordanb2812]

His patents would only have lasted for 17 years. After that, anyone could have produced the same technology without royalties.

[@larebear1902]

i think j p morgan may have influenced his decisions ...

[@alexhall2917]

Hooke tried to ruin Newton and steal his work. Newton had every right to fire back.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

But Newton himself was a monster. Read about his conduct as head of the mint.

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Woolf’s view of reading is sadly becoming more and more substantive. Books are fast becoming a luxury only the rich can afford, especially paper and hardback. Simple mass market paperbacks you find at some grocery stores are sitting at 10 and 15 bucks in some places.

[@collettemcquaide1662]

One can find books online for no fee.

[@trgrevolucije9]

Now show me top 10 bad, who were shockingly god people

[@SuperTonyony]

Wait..."god people"? Is that a typo, or does the commenter want to know about messiahs and demigods and such?

[@leytonjay]

Richard Dawkins is fucking insufferable. He's done brilliant things and is a fantastic science educator, but so followed his Twitter for one week and ended up hating him.

[@riccardoatwork5291]

insufferable and "horrible person" are two very , very different things..

[@milascave2]

When he debates a person of faith, he just repeats "Show me the evidence." A trained parrot could do the same. By the way, I would credit the invention of the concept of memes, if not the word, to "William S. Burroughs," who coined the phrase "Language is a virus." Burroughs would deserve his own entry, were it not for the fact that he never tried to hide his areas of awfulllness, so they would surprise nobody who knows about him.

[@cherylcallahan5402]

TYVM Top Tenz enjoyed watching your video.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

The Dawkins entry is completely unjustified.

[@saxongreen78]

The poor conversion rate of this video bears out my own attitude to it...to condemn people at all, much less on the grounds of one or two traits, is pretty poor form. Pooh to you!

[@xenotypos]

Especially people from 2000 years ago. People you can't even hope to ever understand, in an era we can't really imagine no matter how hard we try (which he probably didn't anyway) and how accurately it is depicted. It's stupid.

[@machinaowl910]

"They're CONDEMNING people" the world has officially ended.

[@agerven]

Pooh too, I like that:)

[@robbes7rh]

Me too! Pooh to this pseudo-intellectual nitpicking clap trap. I may have difficulty falling asleep tonight knowing that James Cameron caused an actress to cry and nailed some one's cell phone to the wall! What a cad. Nearly on par with Hitler.

[@pamspencer5733]

Your lovely,marry me?

[@jp3813]

Why do you act as if Titanic and Avatar are the only noteworthy films by James Cameron? He made The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and True Lies as well.

[@KIDPHAROH]

Yeah, not only is he an amazing director but he's an amazing painter as well.

[@MY-nd4eh]

+Chris Razack paint me like one of your French girls.

[@KIDPHAROH]

Ok

[@richhamel8359]

I can produce movies also, alot of people can. What's your definition of genius?

[@jp3813]

Rich Hamel When you're the filmmaker behind Terminator 1&2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, etc...

[@DorothyGTyas]

*Puppy killers are psychopaths!* ☜ 💀

[@AT-ytinvasive]

If done for kicks, yes.

[@Ironbattlemace]

Simon Whistler. He just rambles on about he's kids when I try to listen to true crime :D

[@vangroover1903]

Whistler is truly a form of evil for the internet. He lives the stupid his narration causes.

[@roovexer]

You cannot expect that people that are trascendentally exceptional in one aspect must be exceptional in all other aspects at all moments during their lifes. They are humans after all. Also, their "sins" should be put within the historical context because their achievements were significant within their historical context.

[@CathieSoli]

John Lennon was an asshole. It's well documented.

[@CathieSoli]

Ellder Sage So very true.

[@roovexer]

I am not excusing anyone nor qualifying anyone as good or as bad. What I am saying is that it is impossible to excel at everything at all times. Amso the most common thing is to find assholes without "superpowers" everywhere ...hence, you have to expect that superheroes must be assholes in other aspects of their life ...and if you put that in the right frame of reference you will be able to judge more adequately.

[@milascave2]

When young, I've heard, he used to straight up mug people.

[@scottfoxl7431]

No, John never mugged anyone, nor instigated a fight. He fought cos he had to in that tough town he grew up in. So sad that in his last days, Yoko says he was the happiest he'd ever been and vowed to never again be rude to fans and to be the father to Sean that he himself never had. If he was alive today, I think he'd be a very happy grampa and might still be making music.

[@hebber1961]

wow... is Dawkins a horrible person for THAT? I think not.

[@NicosMind]

Sounds like a butthurt christian made this list, and really, really tried to make Dawkins seem bad just because hes an atheist, and because he wasn't afraid to call out a feminist on feminist bullshit.. But hey. Lets take everything any feminist says like its "gospel" and ignore obvious lies. Because all men are evil and feminists are always right. Ironic much?

[@legodude6912]

NicosMind His description of Dawkin's 'Sexism' was exaggerated, but he made a good point about Dawkins using his knowledge to agitate people online.

[@hebber1961]

Eine Kartoffel perhaps he's annoying or even a jerk to some but "shockingly horrible person" seems a little much.

[@legodude6912]

hebber1961 I guess so. I think he just wanted to establish the fact that he's not such a nice person.

[@101keiffer]

I think he just doesn't suffer fools and is willing to correct an incorrect statement. Is it better to let someone continue in ignorance for fear of upsetting them?

[@zpoukiboi1334]

John Lennon was ashamed of his acts of violence against women saying “I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.

[@petereshuis1538]

Its weird coming to this video after Brain Blaze…. Things have changed somewhat… haha keep up the great work Simon! (And writers and editors)

[@zestygurl]

Agree with Tesla feel not everyone should breed. He was brilliant for not breeding. Yes, he was a genius but, it came at a high cost with his OCD, visions and so on. He knew he might pass that on to a child. It's wise not horrible. Now, he's eugenics stand not sure how deep that goes. But, not horrible for pointing that out. Disney belonged in this video more than Tesla. George Westinghouse Jr however, an example of an amazing human. Inventor. Far better than Edison. We should talk about him more as a example. Successful and kind.

[@thebigpicture2032]

Plus Tesla may well be correct about Eugenics in the year 2100.

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

they're doing stuff right now that would curdle your blood, if you knew.

[@gregw2032]

Bell Scott he was never a genius

[@ClariceAust]

Tesla wasn't concerned about his future progeny. He didn't have sex because he believed it would dissipate or waste his mental energy, full stop.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Also Tesla was not proven wrong yet. This could very well happen by 21st century esp if we have problems with overpopulation and resources running out. Remember that movie Gattaca? Great sci fi. People just don't realize how great the world is right now, and take far too much for granted.

[@Izzak_Beck]

Eugenics was supported by the US government and enforced by law. Calling out Tesla on that specifically is kind of ridiculous when it was so widely supported.

[@NotALizardPerson81]

Izzak Beck so was slavery and genocide against the natives and spousal rape.

[@longliverocknroll5]

Prince Mononoke You've missed his point entirely lol.

[@NotALizardPerson81]

longliverocknroll5 did I?

[@Izzak_Beck]

+Prince Mononoke My point is that calling out Tesla for that instead of calling out all of America for it is stupid, if you are going to call someone horrible for something in particular, it should probably be something that is unique to them, not something that existed as a norm in their society.

[@NotALizardPerson81]

Izzak Beck so i did get your point. I don't agree.

[@Aeturnalis]

Wait... i thought you were going to give an example of how Tesla was a terrible person, but only provided proof that he was a genius in numerous fields?