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For future reference, "Luboš Motl" and "puts it so viciously, dismisses without genuine inquiry or curiosity [....], and plays so much faster and looser with his ideas than the author he critiques—you can taste his contrition" are pretty much synonymous. The man's a troll with a PhD.

Could you explain your view in a calmer and clearer way than Motl? I’m curious whether there’s any “there” there, so to speak.

QD as described in Ball’s article sounds very sensible to me, and Motl’s objections sound like he misunderstands the article and would actually mostly agree with QD.

(The author of the blog post is Luboš Motl. Pilsen is the name of a town in Czechia where he presumably lives.)