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When I was in my first year of graduate school I saw a lecture from a guy who had spent the last 10 or 15 years of his career working on new therapies for a rare type of childhood neurologic disease (but the exact one escapes me atm). Anyway a point he made in the lecture was that his research, which has been verified and is well accepted now, was counter to a large study that was published in the New England Journal. For this reason, it was difficult to get published at first. He said something that stuck with me, which is that just because something was written by someone famous doesn't make it true. (Often in science or medicine, everyone is deferential to the guy with the best title.) Same seems to be true here. This jag would never have had a pulpit if he didn't have a Columbia title. Fortunately, the truth usually wins with enough persistence.