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If you look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Noam Chomsky] sitting at MIT, you will realize that it was once the case that such people were much more common. You can look up a fellow, an old friend of mine named Serge Lang, and you could scarcely believe that such a person could have existed at Yale, but that person very much did exist. You can look at an old controversy about David Baltimore and a woman named Margo O'Toole, and the courage of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ptashne Mark Ptashne] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gilbert Walter Gilbert] in fighting a Nobel Laureate when Margo O'Toole accused a colleague of the Nobel Laureate of misconduct, or at least, irreproducibility of results.