Comment by felippee

Author here (of the post, not the paper). I think you don't understand how science works. The whole point of the exercise (which indeed may have been forgotten these days) is to attack ideas/papers. The first line of attack should be your friends to make sure you don't put anything out there that is silly. The second line of attack are the reviewers, who may or may not be idiots themselves, but in the perfect world should serve the same purpose. The third line attack are independent readers, people like me. I found it to be trivial, took my liberty to attack it. It is not personal and should not be taken so. These guys may in the future publish the most amazing piece of research ever. But this one is not it. They should realize this and my blog post serves this purpose. If somebody gets offended and takes it personally, so be it. I think people should have a bit thicker skin, especially in science. I took quite a bit of bullshit myself (and I'm sure I will have to take more) and never complained. So relax, read the paper, read the post, learn something from both and go on.