Comments on: 238. Twitter updates for 2009-02-07 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twitter-updates-for-2009-02-07/ Cosmology, turbulence, markets, non-equilibrium QFT and much more. No nonsense, just science Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dmitry http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twitter-updates-for-2009-02-07/comment-page-1/#comment-5914 Dmitry Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:43:22 +0000 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twitter-updates-for-2009-02-07/#comment-5914 <blockquote>But is there a genuinely rational reason why this explanation is "clear" to you?</blockquote> Of course not, but the history of events is enough for me to make the guess. <blockquote>So I wouldn't be shocked if they were doing these things - do you actually question they did?</blockquote> Oh no, I don't. What is more important is that NSF is getting attacked, and several, how to say it softly, naive physicists-bloggers including myself decided to increase the coverage of the story instead of doing what is the most natural - defending NSF. So, the real question is: what is it possible to do in this situation to help NSF? Saying that watching porn is "not unusual and acceptable" is a kind of defence, but a passive one, you are still getting hit. What can be done on the active side? Right now I have no idea. Cheers, Dmitry. Cheers,

But is there a genuinely rational reason why this explanation is “clear” to you?

Of course not, but the history of events is enough for me to make the guess.

So I wouldn’t be shocked if they were doing these things – do you actually question they did?

Oh no, I don’t. What is more important is that NSF is getting attacked, and several, how to say it softly, naive physicists-bloggers including myself decided to increase the coverage of the story instead of doing what is the most natural – defending NSF. So, the real question is: what is it possible to do in this situation to help NSF? Saying that watching porn is “not unusual and acceptable” is a kind of defence, but a passive one, you are still getting hit. What can be done on the active side? Right now I have no idea.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

Cheers,

]]> By: Lubos Motl http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twitter-updates-for-2009-02-07/comment-page-1/#comment-5907 Lubos Motl Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:45:32 +0000 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twitter-updates-for-2009-02-07/#comment-5907 Well, it is very conceivable that the porn story was a PR attack on NSF and it is natural to believe so. But is there a genuinely rational reason why this explanation is "clear" to you? ;-) My personal guess is that employees at pretty much every place in the world are watching porn, sometimes, and it is up to others who begin to emphasize such things. So I wouldn't be shocked if they were doing these things - do you actually question they did? If you agree with me, then the question is whether one should pretend that it's so unusual and unacceptable that this happened at NSF. I don't think it is so extraordinary. Well, it is very conceivable that the porn story was a PR attack on NSF and it is natural to believe so. But is there a genuinely rational reason why this explanation is “clear” to you? ;-)

My personal guess is that employees at pretty much every place in the world are watching porn, sometimes, and it is up to others who begin to emphasize such things.

So I wouldn’t be shocked if they were doing these things – do you actually question they did? If you agree with me, then the question is whether one should pretend that it’s so unusual and unacceptable that this happened at NSF.

I don’t think it is so extraordinary.

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