>>> There's plenty of that. Co-students mocking you, and the teacher grading
>>> you. ;-)
>
>> Whereas in *real* scientice, it's other eminent scientists who mock you...
>
>    That's the whole point. If your results stand up to that kind of
> scrutiny, you're a winner. (See eg. the paper named "100 authors against
> Einstein".)

What worries me is the possibility of a theory not being taken seriously 
because nobody likes it, rather than because the theory doesn't work...

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