I fail to grasp why he is so contentious actually Based on my reading he s not extremely prominent in any of the fields he is involved in and he doesn t really done anything especially interesting or controversial in his career I understand that he is a contentious figure but I don t really understand why there s so much rancor over him here I have been studying the other discussions under this exemplar and they seem a little edgy and rancorous to me and it really doesn t seem warranted