We cannot even assume MIT nor Caltech to be wise nor truthful in this pursuit.
So ignore them, they are not the whole world of science as if they could force it into a bottle.
Nonetheless if you ultimately want the big players to pay attention, then you got to get your reliability pretty well up there. Your choice on how to do it, but mad science to mainstream science is not going to happen if the mad scientists don’t try to make it happen.