<HTML>John,
After all the fuss made about the missing references from KSs original paper and RBs hastily composed DE article, his diatribe against the peer review process at Nature (remember that? It still makes me laugh) and then his PR spree when KS didn't reference him at her talk earlier this year I'd have thought this would have been another flash point for him to seize.
Yet when fair criticism is warranted and submitted in the appropriate fashion then journals such as Nature have nothing to hide and are most definitely not a coverup CSICOP operation (which was one of the many ridiculous insinuations that RB made last year).
Perhaps RB may like to discuss the importance that a publication in Nature carries within the scientific community with Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe. Chandra has has had his own work published in Nature and he would surely have some advice that he could offer RB.
Perhaps it is time RB (and GH et al) realised that the reputation of a journal is always more important to the journal editors than the reputation of any of their esteemed contributors. If errors are published then it is vital to the whole peer review process that they are highlighted and brought to their readers attention.
I'm sure many missed RB and Sharifs public denigration of Nature last year. Any chance they'd like to retract those comments? hmmm I thought not.
KRs,
Duncan</HTML>
