Jumping to sexist assumptions is also a problem.

I don't see the problem. We are still doing this today. Pick a hot button topic that has some "consensus" then watch how outliers get treated. For example, COVID and climate change. I'm not saying people going completely against the narrative but professionals publicizing concerns or data that just doesn't fit the current narrative.

This is more of meritocracy run amok. I've got the fancy credentials which shows I'm brilliant, and I know it.

World renowned Harvard Philosopher Michael Sandel on The Tyranny of Merit: https://youtu.be/Qewckuxa9hw

I'm not sure about that since Erdos had the typical pre-GenZ-wokeness vocabulary of a nerd, where everything they said was worded as an insult to people less smart or with different hobbies than him. To the point where it's in his Wikipedia article:

> Women were "bosses" who "captured" men as "slaves" by marrying them. Divorced men were "liberated".

> People who stopped doing mathematics had "died", while people who died had "left".

> Music (except classical music) was "noise".

(Did boomers ever notice all their wife-based humor was about how much they hated theirs?)

Something tells me Erdős wasn't immune to sexism and would've probably not been immune to being a bit sexist here too.