You know you’re not obligated to read article comments on the internet, right?
I’ve actually read several articles on the topic, and hundreds of articles on the topic of “OMG EINSTEIN WUZ WRONG” more generally. (For what it’s worth, this nitwit also has a PhD in physics and has read multiple scholarly biographies of Albert Einstein. The most comprehensive is Albrect Fölsing’s)
The problem is not the humanizing part of it. It’s all of the headlines wrapping the whole thing in the implicit expectation that Einstein should be above the norms of his culture and his contemporaries just because he was a “genius”. Continually fostering that expectation contributes to the mythologizing of Einstein, not his humanization.
