this is all fine but it's not why people think aella's research is worthless. science is a religion, scientists are priests, and aella has not been ritually permitted to wield the holy science. that's it. also sexual jealousy https://t.co/zo9RZw3Tuf

— QC (4/10 Substack posts) (@QiaochuYuan) February 15, 2023

Aella could discover cold fusion, cure cancer, and make a warp drive and she would still be laughed at in academia. If her ideas actually worked, they’d be stolen (as many already have been) and attributed to someone else who was ritually permitted to wield the Holy Science.

In my own case, it has been economics ideas that are now widely accepted and/or openly debated. When I had and promulgated these same ideas 15-20 years ago, they were laughed at, called “ludicrous” and I was called in an econ forum thread (and I’m quoting here) a “fucking retard.” One of the people berating me in that thread now advocates those same ideas. Funny how that works. Wish I’d saved all that as the forum is long gone now.

It’s hilarious academic mooks talking about Aella’s surveys being worthless when those same people survey WASP college students age 18-22 and think that’s representative of all humanity. Just…how?