I imagine he did feel he was superior in intelligence and felt quite embarrassed by being basically called out. For me personally, I was so afraid of being called out that I was almost ridiculously obsessed with accuracy and the ability to reproduce my lab results.
And to Hatfield, lab work is amazingly fun. When I had my baby girl I became a stay at home mommy but would be lying if I said I didnt miss it. The pictures of DNA that had been chopped was seriously like looking at beautiful artwork. That's actually what I would like to do, run DNA samples and print them as artwork. Like imagine how cool it would be to have a row of each person in your families DNA on an electrophoresis gel in one pic!
But to be more on topic, a know it all, or someone who thinks they can outsmart people makes for one of the worst type of scientist. They are often the type of people who interpret data in a way to make it support things that just aren't so.
Being that he was/is so intelligent, I imagine he had done some self diagnosing. I would love to see his full computer history.
