It’s flattering that you call me a “black hole astronomer” (since it implies that what I’ve written about black hole astronomy looks like it’s written by someone who works in the field), but I am not one.
Everything in my comment is in response to things you wrote. That makes it the exact reverse of a Gish gallop.
I do not have any sock puppets. (I can think of exactly one online thing where I have more than one account. It’s an internet chess server that can serve you up puzzles and give you a numerical indication of how you’re doing at solving them. I wanted two accounts so that I could use one for trying to solve the puzzles in limited time and another where I would think for as long as I needed before trying a move. I emailed the people who run the server to check they didn’t mind. I mention all this just as an indication that I am unusually scrupulous about this sort of thing.)
So far as I can see, this article consists of (1) a little bit of “framing”, (2) lengthy quotations from something I wrote, your response to it, and my response to that, and your (very short) response to that, and (3) a self-congratulatory remark about what a great job you did responding to me. I am at a loss to understand what you think that will achieve.
It’s flattering that you call me a “black hole astronomer” (since it implies that what I’ve written about black hole astronomy looks like it’s written by someone who works in the field), but I am not one.
Everything in my comment is in response to things you wrote. That makes it the exact reverse of a Gish gallop.
I do not have any sock puppets. (I can think of exactly one online thing where I have more than one account. It’s an internet chess server that can serve you up puzzles and give you a numerical indication of how you’re doing at solving them. I wanted two accounts so that I could use one for trying to solve the puzzles in limited time and another where I would think for as long as I needed before trying a move. I emailed the people who run the server to check they didn’t mind. I mention all this just as an indication that I am unusually scrupulous about this sort of thing.)
So far as I can see, this article consists of (1) a little bit of “framing”, (2) lengthy quotations from something I wrote, your response to it, and my response to that, and your (very short) response to that, and (3) a self-congratulatory remark about what a great job you did responding to me. I am at a loss to understand what you think that will achieve.