It's a severe test of patience to adjust to people who you know are wrong.

Example: Someone who participates in the sci.physics.research forum, a very vocal supporter of string theory at Harvard, decided to send me unsolicited flame mail over my new gravitational work. It was clear that he 1) did not actually read my paper 2) did not understand the geometric basis of the work 3) did not really understand gravity even as it stands. Nevertheless he felt quite justified in calling me a "crackpot" in public (the group came to my defense). My work is still not on the arxiv.org preprint server, even though it is appearing this month in a well-known journal with a stellar editorial cast - I suppose it is just beyond the comprehension of the so-called site editor that a non-affiliated person could do original work. More amazing is that all manner of pointless trivia are allowed to accumulate in the archive, like mental dust bunnies under the furniture of reality. These things are frustrating in the extreme, but there is nothing to be done about it other than draw a deep breath and bide one's time. Academics have so much ego invested in maintaining their personal status quo ante that getting any new ideas past them is almost necessarily a fortunate accident.