他在信中写到 ： “ 对这些科学家的指控是不公平而且幼稚的 … … 对于地震的预测，目前并没有公认可靠的科学预警方法可以使民众避免一场即将降临的灾害。
He wrote that the “charges against these scientists are both unfair and naïve….[T]here is no accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction that can be reliably used to warn citizens of an impending disaster.”