Thank you so much for your stories. They always give me so much pleasure and things to think about.
Like here. It is somehow soothing that the kind of Eddington's arrogance, and shameless hoity-toitiness at the cost of other people, which one might think is a feature inherent to today's "Social Media University culture" - in fact has existed even when "knowledge" was still a thing discussed in circles of "the knowledgeable" only.
I mean look at this remark: “I have not read professor Milne’s paper, but I hardly think it is necessary, for it would be absurd for me to pretend that professor Milne has the remotest chance of being right.” ... And doesn't this exactly sound as a piece of discourse delivered on TikTok during the vaccination debate, by self-assigned "literati," disclaiming scientific studies as if they even had a clue of what they were about?
And then this: (paraphrased) "There should be a law against nature behaving like this." LOL.