Comments on: Nutters on the Bus http://www.inkspotscience.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/26/nutters-on-the-bus/ Collaboration between scientists, in any field, anywhere. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: KC http://www.inkspotscience.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/26/nutters-on-the-bus/#comment-88 KC Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:22:52 +0000 http://www.inkspotscience.com/blog/?p=25#comment-88 I totally agree, David. About time someone spoke up. I totally agree, David. About time someone spoke up.

]]> By: Richard Denison http://www.inkspotscience.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/26/nutters-on-the-bus/#comment-85 Richard Denison Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:07:57 +0000 http://www.inkspotscience.com/blog/?p=25#comment-85 David: As a scientist myself, I'm dismayed that you felt compelled to resort to hurling insults at me, rather than delving into the extensive analysis my blog post provided to rebut -- and document in detail -- my objections to the shoddy analysis on which Drs. Hartung and Costanza relied for their opinion piece in Nature. Had you bothered to look into it, you would also have found that the arguments in my analysis and the gross errors in theirs were confirmed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) itself. Or did you overlook the link to that ECHA document prominently posted at the top of my blog post? I suggest readers who want to know who's right here actually read my post, rather than relying on David's uninformed insults, before forming their own opinions. David:

As a scientist myself, I’m dismayed that you felt compelled to resort to hurling insults at me, rather than delving into the extensive analysis my blog post provided to rebut — and document in detail — my objections to the shoddy analysis on which Drs. Hartung and Costanza relied for their opinion piece in Nature. Had you bothered to look into it, you would also have found that the arguments in my analysis and the gross errors in theirs were confirmed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) itself. Or did you overlook the link to that ECHA document prominently posted at the top of my blog post?

I suggest readers who want to know who’s right here actually read my post, rather than relying on David’s uninformed insults, before forming their own opinions.

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