> I continue to get treated like I'm a loon who has no basis to claim any kind of competence at all. > And if I say that is evidence of sexism, well, that's ju

> I continue to get treated like I'm a loon who has no basis to claim any kind of competence at all. > And if I say that is evidence of sexism, well, that's just more "evidence" I'm some crank. You claimed in the thread that you were deserving of the Nobel prize in medicine. If people are treating you like a crank and you are making claims like that, that is pretty far from "no basis to claim any kind of competence at all." That one seems to be a claim of supreme competence.