[eli_gottlieb]

>(1)'Security through obscurity' problem, where nobody can be bothered to verify your results as they are likely meaningless, lack broad applicability, or are not intellectally cost-effective for anyone to be bothered to understand them (etc).

This is simply a problem of explaining findings to other researchers. Every single researcher with a genuine finding on his hands will, at some point, seem like his work is obscure and pointless compared to "all those other guys" who are building on established research for immediate application.

And then there's the issue that your failure to understand someone's research doesn't mean it isn't research. Sometimes what a field needs is just a few more smart people willing to work at understanding what the hell's going on.