[blub]

Having missed the main discussion, and getting the chance to see additional info become available, it seems that the critics were right, even if they perhaps had ignoble reasons to complain, as you claim.

There were apparently 30 people involved, four algorithms, one of which belonged to the main character of our story and in the end that algorithm was not used, according to one of her colleagues :)

[yodon]

All I can say is I am sorry you have fallen prey to that narrative. It is not uncommon for large science to involve not 30 people but hundreds, and not four algorithms but dozens. In the end, science still talks about the work as having been done by an individual, just as we say that Steve Jobs created the iPhone. Everyone involved understands that Steve Jobs didn't solder the battery connectors or write the display driver. What he did was make the project happen. The same is true in science, particularly in large science. There is nothing new here except misogyny. Your favorite male experimental Nobel Prize winners of the past 50 years also worked with large teams and also didn't write all the code on their projects. That's how large projects work and how large research efforts are personified.