> The mainstream of higher-ed biology is not yet fully on board and is still snickering at his work because he is an outsider I don't think people are snickeri

> The mainstream of higher-ed biology is not yet fully on board and is still snickering at his work because he is an outsider I don't think people are snickering at him. He was invited to Caltech to speak this past winter. I think that system is just poorly characterized so not a lot of people work with it yet, and he is certainly a pioneer in the area.