> And I really hope you're being ironic using a Feynman quote there!
If you had met Feynman, you would realize when he said something like that, he wasn't posing as any kind of authority. This naturally reminds me of one of my favorite Einstein quotes:
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
Paul, I just looked you up and realised of course you would have met Feynman.
Although he died when I was 3, Reading books by and about him when I was going through my final years of undergrad changed the course of my life - I am now a final year medical student due to the influence of him and, subsequently, Carl Sagan.
so, I guess this is just a hand wave across the internet at someone who has achieved much and met one or more of my intellectual idols.
ps. I find your aperger's by proxy article very interesting.
That's a bit optimistic, in the long run it may be true, but over shorter time periods reputation and authority often discourage proper criticism.