> highly damaging to scientific research in general Uhm, what? How so? > Describe your own research as "crap" in an email you ask to keep confidential? Give m

> highly damaging to scientific research in general Uhm, what? How so? > Describe your own research as "crap" in an email you ask to keep confidential? Give me a break. I don't know any researcher thinking what they do is "crap". You don't have to think of something as crap to use the word once, in an email. It's not that deep. > And how would the emailer know about "all other areas"? Incidentally, this is exactly the idea Sabine tries to convey. It's also what you'd say when you think that "everybody is doing it". And do you know that people can just state something even though they may not actually know if its true? Not just in emails, also on the web! > Another inconsistency: the author says they're sorry for being harsh. Why apologize to Sabine for stating what she believes? Why not? > For me, this is Sabine speaking to her audience right here. Oh, so it's all fake, right. Because you "can't see" why someone you don't know would write that about something you don't know either. I find the efforts to make mountains out of mole hills, or even nothing at all, this focusing all on her as a person and the email, rather than the usual "everyone going off a tangent on the subject", where in this case there would probably a lot of anecdotes to tell, insightful in its own right.