Comments on: The Dr and I, concluded. http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/12/the-dr-and-i-concluded/ Kicking ass in the name of science! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Frank the SciencePunk http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/12/the-dr-and-i-concluded/#comment-69 Frank the SciencePunk Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:19:19 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/12/the-dr-and-i-concluded/#comment-69 Dr Tiliopolous asked that I remove wholesale the insinuation that he was paid to write this formula (which wasn't true). I would have preferred to keep it there but <strike>struck through</strike>, but I'm in no position to argue. This is separate to the criticisms of the formula itself - those still stand. He accepted that as his first attempt to discuss complex ideas outside of academia, he hadn't done very well. Dr Tiliopolous asked that I remove wholesale the insinuation that he was paid to write this formula (which wasn’t true). I would have preferred to keep it there but struck through, but I’m in no position to argue.
This is separate to the criticisms of the formula itself - those still stand. He accepted that as his first attempt to discuss complex ideas outside of academia, he hadn’t done very well.

]]> By: Ithika http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/12/the-dr-and-i-concluded/#comment-67 Ithika Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:42:52 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2006/12/the-dr-and-i-concluded/#comment-67 I'm a bit lost here. Did you remove the comment from the blog post? It's not apparent from your comments. The only place that quote exists is in Tiliopoulos's post, yet you claim you're leaving it there as evidence. Anyway, I think the good doctor was talking out of something round and inappropriate. Apparently Dr Tiliopoulos's argument boils down to "all my colleagues use bad maths too...". Great. We should pass this guy onto Mark Chu-Carroll. He made no attempt to actually explain why he whored his (apparently) good name in the interest of passing on a meaningless formula to the wider public. What a twerp. I’m a bit lost here. Did you remove the comment from the blog post? It’s not apparent from your comments. The only place that quote exists is in Tiliopoulos’s post, yet you claim you’re leaving it there as evidence.

Anyway, I think the good doctor was talking out of something round and inappropriate. Apparently Dr Tiliopoulos’s argument boils down to “all my colleagues use bad maths too…”. Great. We should pass this guy onto Mark Chu-Carroll. He made no attempt to actually explain why he whored his (apparently) good name in the interest of passing on a meaningless formula to the wider public. What a twerp.

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