<story><title>First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>&amp;gt; String theorist Lubos Motl savaged Verlinde’s ideas in a recent blog post: “I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper.”&lt;p&gt;I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating. There&amp;#x27;s no justification for this level of nastiness -- not in private, public, peer review, or science as a whole. Seeking out the unknown and creative explanations thereof is the hallmark of good science; check your ego at the door. I know nothing about him... but in my book, Lubos Motl can go pound sand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Motl is notorious for this sort of thing.  He once called me a &amp;quot;category 5 loon&amp;quot; because something I said in a talk was wrong.  But the reason it was wrong is because I was advancing it as a straw-man precisely to show it was wrong.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;evading-quantum-mechanics-again.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;evading-quantum-mechanics-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>&amp;gt; String theorist Lubos Motl savaged Verlinde’s ideas in a recent blog post: “I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper.”&lt;p&gt;I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating. There&amp;#x27;s no justification for this level of nastiness -- not in private, public, peer review, or science as a whole. Seeking out the unknown and creative explanations thereof is the hallmark of good science; check your ego at the door. I know nothing about him... but in my book, Lubos Motl can go pound sand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>&amp;gt; I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;d rather people quietly knife you in review?  Because that&amp;#x27;s what happens if you penalize people for public rudeness.  Personally, I&amp;#x27;d rather have a loud critique to my face than a polite one behind my back or, even worse, no engagement at all.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t need your politeness or friendship when I&amp;#x27;m putting forth some new theory.  I need accurate, engaged criticism and the number of people who will do that is vanishingly small.  And a lot of the ones who will do that have social issues almost by definition.</text></comment>