I think that it&#x27;s fair to analyse the author&#x27;s success or lack thereof, because he relies on this as part of his argument, e.g.<p><i>My friends have also pointed out that I should not be &quot;discouraged&quot; by the difficulties faced as a scientist, that I should continue to &quot;fight.&quot; Again, they are wrong; discouragements due to failures have never kept me down. I have never been afraid of failures and of retrying, and retrying again; my scientific successes are what discouraged me, because I know how they were obtained</i><p><i>I will still publish my book, The Revolutionary Phenotype, which contains an important novel theory on the emergence of life</i><p>The author&#x27;s argument rests on both his success in academia in spite of its unfairness, but even more importantly, it relies on his claims to have found more fruitful pursuits outside academia.  I don&#x27;t think anyone really considers how <i>personally</i> fulfilling these pursuits to be to be an important issue, but rather whether he is actually correct that these pursuits are more valuable to society than academia.