Whenever a famous scientist I respected turns out to be a total heel, it bothers me.

[Warpy]

1. People who are brilliant in one area can be dumb as stumps outside it

While Goodall accurately documented chimp behavior, the values she assigned to it after the fact are her own and have nothing to do with reality.

I have been privileged to know many cutting edge scientists. A few were brilliant in any field they cared to look into. Most were lost outside their own fields.

I don't think we can discredit the early work Goodall did. She's just trying to make sense of it now and, lacking the proper tools and getting sidetracked, failing.