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"Mostly you only concern about the criticism from within scientific community"

Ha. That doesn't apply to climate scientists. And there was the case of Andy Schlafly of Conservapedia (a creationist lawyer) demanding all sorts of nonsense from a scientist who documented evolution through many, many generations of bacteria.

At its worst, you get ideological cranks ganging up and demanding information, possibly through FOIA requests, pretty much for the sole purpose of using up all the scientist's time responding. Then when they don't respond, and/or it turns out they aren't subject to FOIA requests, the cranks freak out, break into a server, steal emails, and declare a conspiracy.



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