That’s because you are a rare person of character. And it’s why you are a beacon of light in this whole Covid drama. It’s shocking to see how small the group is of likeminded professionals.
Still, I’m sorry to hear you got rooked out of a Nature paper. I guess you saw how the system worked early in your professional career. It encouraging to see that instead of learning to conform, you chose your own path.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw