Hello,

I haven't mastered the quote-box-thingy so some tutoring, from any quarter, would be appreciated. Thanks.

Neverfly: Setting folks up for preconditioning will not work here.

RH: Frankly, that seems a little paranoid to me. I'll wager that 99% of the bloggers here are not familiar with my research, therefore, introducing them to a taste at the outset only makes sense, n'est pas? Are you suggesting that those who post here will be unduly or unfairly influenced by my already-published comments? I had assumed that I was dealing with a higher class of critically-thinking intellects on this site. I will allude to my website only when appropriate and will of course tackle comments and criticisms as they come. However, given that I have just completed a 600-page book on this subject, including skeptics' and debunkers' objections to it, I may quote frequently from it, where appropriate, as I just did with Jay. Like Dr. Plait, I too am a busy man and re-stating certain info is not feasible.

Neverfly: And I for one have little tolerance for someone calling me a liar.

RH: Hmmmm... The paranoid thing again, IMHO. Please don't say that I am being disrespectful here when you have just falsely accused me of something right out of the chute.

Let the games begin...

Robert