This really isn't a great way to think about this. Generalizing from 'someone or someones who's really annoying me' is the royal road to selection bias. The people who are vexing you are by no means necessarily representative of the whole.
You can't patent general social science or cultural insights. See also: recipes etc. But good ones actually take a lot of time and energy to come up with. So people coordinate towards a credit-for-good-insights set of norms and police and defend them vigorously.
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See also the similar dynamics in re: journalists getting highly upset when their scoops aren't acknowledged. This is a highly messy and imperfect system, with plenty of faults. As
@zeynep said, most academics care more about peer recognition than public attention. -
Too much public attention is indeed sometimes viewed as a negative - you're too "popular" or whatever. You are supposed to pursue scholarly rather than public attention, citations rather than NYT hits. That of course has many pathologies associated with it
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