Elephant. My favorite animal: takes no crap, gives no crap, harms no-one but when one tries to harm it, never forgets. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The scientist’s behavior while facing the refutation of his ideas has been studied in depth as part of the so-called attribution bias. You attribute your successes to skills, but your failures to randomness. This explains why these scientists attributed their failures to the “ten sigma” rare event, indicative of the thought that they were right but that luck played against them. Why? It is a human heuristic that makes us actually believe so in order not to kill our self-esteem and keep us going against adversity.

My point: life is not about outcomes, it's how you handle adversity. Suffering doesn't prevent you from being a role model, to the contrary --depends how you handle it. Popping pills does disqualify you.

For the ancients, forecasting historical events was an insult to the God(s); for me, it is an insult to man—that is, for some, to science.