I had the enjoyable experience of sitting at a tech conference and listening to the others in my group tell one of my friends that he had no idea what he was ta

I had the enjoyable experience of sitting at a tech conference and listening to the others in my group tell one of my friends that he had no idea what he was talking about when he said they weren't designing a proper experiment. I was the only one there who knew he's a particle physicist. The OP is horrifyingly right.