Nowadays, he’s only taught in a, “None of what this guy said has any basis in reality, but he basically started the field, so we’re learning this as HISTORY ONLY.” kind of way.
You don’t need to know anything about the content of his work in order to say he is a fraud, as it is accepted as fact by the field of study as a whole.
This is the shit that I can’t handle with the whole “had to walk uphill both ways in the snow in order to go to school” rhetoric, because it centers the story teller’s pain, and reinforces the “yeah, whatever, grandma” response.
If they would instead say something like, “when I was a kid, not every school district had the money for a whole bus system just for children, and a large section of the population didn’t have access to cars either, so we were mostly responsible for getting ourselves to school on our own, on top of 6he ract that it was 8jcredibly difficult for the school district to communicate closures, so if you could possibly get there, you’d try, so we’d be forced to try,” It would do much more to communicate what they actually mean.