I wrote:
If he reads carefully he will probably learn why his own experiment failed. If he is not willing to do this, he is not a scientist.
I am not being flippant. It is understandable that a person ranks his own experiment highly, but it irks me when a researcher holds his own work to be the only standard of truth and ignores work done by thousands of other people. Especially after 20 years! This person apparently imagines that he understood the problem completely in 1989 and there was nothing more to learn about it since then.
Scott Little rates his own work higher than all others combined, and this is the one thing about him I dislike. His work is very good in most other respects.
- Jed
