The Dr and I, concluded.
December 11th, 2006
Some of you regular readers might have noticed that it is over a week since Dr Niko Tiliopoulos issued a cease-and-desist against me and my incorrect statements regarding him and Carpe Diem. This deadline required me to retract my statements or face legal action. Regular readers be assured: your favourite science punk is not getting sued! Dr Tiliopoulos has graciously accepted my apologies and alterations to the original document. He’s also accepted my criticisms of the formula, which is no small thing when one of us is a fully paid-up PhD-bearing academic, and the other is a office-based data monkey. For those who have no clue what the hell I’m talking about, read about how I nearly got sued, and deservedly so.
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1. Ithika | December 11th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
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.
2. Frank the SciencePunk | December 12th, 2006 at 9:19 am
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.
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