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by octonion 1510 days ago
Contrarianism should never be confused with intelligence. When someone says "most of them don’t like me", you can hear the underlying hisses of "because I am right and they are wrong" and "because I am smart and they are dumb". If most people don't like you, there's a very simple reason for it.
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She never said 'most people don't like me'. She said 'most [particle physicists] don't like me'. It just means she has touched on a point of contention that particle physicists care a lot about.