Science, when done properly, is supposed to divorce itself from our biases. The whole point of the scientific method is that someone like Kary who is a bonafide

Science, when done properly, is supposed to divorce itself from our biases. The whole point of the scientific method is that someone like Kary who is a bonafide crackpot, can still make one of the most influential valid scientific discoveries of all time. As a process in its truest form, it works. And we should all be very glad of that, and use it as a lesson to be aware of how biased we can be, and how a biased person can still wield the tools to arrive at the truth.