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"1. He used to get huffy on being questioned or criticized.
2. He resorted to ad hominem (sic) and authority arguments against his detractors.
3. He was adept of secrecy (he hid his work on optics for years)."
If a scientist gets “huffy”, insults those who insult him, and keeps his initial experiments a secret, then all of a sudden he is not a “scientist”? |
Or not as good a scientist as he could be otherwise. At least, that's what I think Argos was saying (at least initially).  |
Ok, I keep saying that.
Can you imagine a scientist so paranoid about his work today? Again, another pillar, if not of the of the modern scientific method, but at least of the scientific ethics, is the principle of publicity: you report your finding as soon as you have one. With the scientific research depending on the money of third parties, as corporate and governmental instances, a scientist can´t get away with the results, or keep them hidden. The lone hermetic scientist is no more.