I'm not sure why, but you're taking my comment as a personal attack. I was not personally attacking you, or trying to quash your 2 cents. You gave your 2 cents,

I'm not sure why, but you're taking my comment as a personal attack. I was not personally attacking you, or trying to quash your 2 cents. You gave your 2 cents, and I disagree with the main thrust of what you said, so I gave my 2 cents on the topic. That's all that's happened, you're not being run out of town on a rail for speaking outside the overton window - you just suggested that this research was a waste of time and I argued that it does not seem to me to be a waste of time. It seems like you have some resentment because you don't feel your personally acquired knowledge is being valued correctly? That may be the case generally, but it's not the case here, I assure you.