I never thought I’d ever sit down to write something as brazen as an appeal for help, advice, or mere human contact. Yet sometimes, in recent days, I’ve wondered if I’ve been suffering from delirium. I thought I believed in a world where experts know more than juniors, where logic runs the course from A to D through a series of simple proofs. Mine had always been a world in which people look at the whole picture and don’t just rely on a single small detail. It’s a world where peer-reviewed scientific literature means something…