Fake skepticism? I've been called a cranky cynic. I can live with that remark.
There are other ways a question about the accomplishments of Jack Parsons could have been asked that would not have resulted in a somewhat snarky cranky cynic response.
There is a big difference in some of his work was used in NASA in technology versus the question of “Did NASA steal everything from Jack Parsons?”
I don't mean to discredit any accomplishments of Jack Parsons. I am aware of his work. But that does not change my remarks regarding the question of “Did NASA steal everything from Jack Parsons?”
Speaking of NASA and interesting characters, we could debate the dark past of Wernher von Braun, but that is a different conversation from why is he considered one of the leading figures in rocket technology.
Quora is filled with battles over stolen ideas and fallen heroes. Just as you mention with the work of many famous scientists and inventors, there are always claims of “stolen ideas.” Likewise, people think all our heroes are model citizens living in a perfect people. Most of them are indeed strange and interesting characters.
Ridley Scott to produce miniseries on rocket scientist, occultist Jack Parsons http://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/ridley-scott-to-produce-minise.html
Book review: Strange Angel, a Jack Parsons biography http://boingboing.net/2005/07/11/book-review-strange.html
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677288.Strange_Angel
John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.
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