"nobody was going to fund what he wanted to work on and he needed a job." That's very logical -- it's incredibly hard to fund anything speculative. My underly

"nobody was going to fund what he wanted to work on and he needed a job." That's very logical -- it's incredibly hard to fund anything speculative. My underlying point is that being honestly wrong doesn't make you a pseudoscientist, and should not result in character assassination or claims of being a fraud or a quack. That sort of thing contributes to a climate of dogmatism and extreme risk aversion in science that more or less guarantees that nothing new will ever be discovered.