> She needed grants to pursue ideas that seemed wild and fanciful. You cannot even realize how many people in academia are running for wild and fanciful ideas.

> She needed grants to pursue ideas that seemed wild and fanciful. You cannot even realize how many people in academia are running for wild and fanciful ideas. Don't blame the scientists, they are probably the most open-minded to the new ideas. But filtering out bad ideas is a part of their job, and they grew thick-skinned from constant bombardment of fancy ideas, we cannot pursue them all. So I'd say this story is pretty traditional in the history of revolutionary ideas (e.g. a similar story of John Snow vs. cholera -- how many years and lives it took).