Comments on: Wednesday Night Linkorama http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=908 Missing Sleep Since June 2007 (Blogging Since 2005) Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: rpl http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-801 rpl Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:44:49 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=908#comment-801 I’m not sure what exactly you were referring to in the Angry Astronomer post, but I thought that he handled the anonymous commenter’s objections rather badly. It seems like he took a belligerent tone from the start and made little attempt to address the genuinely puzzling things about star formation. I can’t fault him too much because, as we all know, arguing with these fools is tiresome at best, but you should either do it right or ignore them. Snapping at them just makes us look bad and deepens their conviction that they are some sort of beleaguered guardians of truth.

At the very least, he could have addressed the question of angular momentum transport in protostellar disks by citing the excellent work of R.H. Durisen and his collaborators. I hear that Link guy he had on his team back in the ’90s was really something…

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