text: What puzzles me most is this racist notion that science is tainted by the prejudice of pale white males. The history of science is replete with scientists who risked their reputations on giving women and other races a shot at a time when it was considered taboo. They knew that the scientific endeavours of their protégés would stand up to ruthless scrutiny, and they did. 
  
  It's precisely because science transcends cultural prejudice that Raju is welcome to publish is corrections of Einstein's work. Einstein is noted for having been wrong empirically very few times. Notably once when he thought he was wrong on the cosmological constant.
  
  There seems to be a distinction between scientific literates who reject Raju's pipe dreams, and literary intellectuals who are not equipped to verify his claims who want to fix something that isn't broken with what amounts to Lysenkoism. Understanding science requires thinking, so the path of least resistance is opting for the ideologically expedient.