I very well may have, in which case I am the retard who should commit the process of doing a flip.
I think the point of the guy I was responding to was it wasn't SFWA but WSFS (who ran Worldcon) who were responsible for the Breendoggle stuff. However, it's really a systemic problem in the whole fandom culture. The whole community has always had a problem of letting really abhorrent behavior slide just because someone writes well (Delany being the most obvious example).
Yeah, my point was that it seems no one at the time in California was aware of his child molestation conviction in Atlantic City, but he wasn't sent to prison for it. It would have been hard to find out that information pre-Internet, and Bradley was covering for him. But also SWFA couldn't have had anything to do with this because it didn't exist. Even if SFWA was around at the time, Breen wouldn't have qualified to be a member because he never wrote any science fiction stories.
Fandom definitely has problems with safeguarding, but science fiction fans weren't the only people fooled by him. He had a very suuccessful career in numismatics. People in the coin collecting world were defending him even after his predilictions were widely known, even lobbying to have him released from prison.
By the time he was convicted in 1990, he and Bradley had been separated for years and the perception was she was innocent in all this. None of her crimes were known until after she died. If there was some conspiracy by the SFWA to cover up Bradley's crimes, I don't think anyone has actually accused them of that, not even Moira Greyheart.
Hogg sounds terrible, but the SFWA didn't give Samuel Delany an Grandmaster award for it. His NAMBLA remarks are gross, but it's not like they were particulatly publicized until after he got the award. It was a huge mistake for them not to look into everything he wrote before giving him the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, but unless he's actually convicted of a crime I don't think they're going to denounce him.
I'm looking forward to that podcast, but I'm not sure how much new information it's actually going to contain. I think the real scandal is the money they spent on Pat's lawsuit. They apparently flushed 100,000 dollars down the toilet. I wish someone was doing an in depth investigation of that.