A Note on Authorship

To answer insinuations made elsewhere, please note that while I support anonymous peer reviewing as a valuable academic technique Messrs Ixer, Bevins and Parker Pearson have not contributed any anonymous reviews to this site.

Nobody tells me what to think.

As Grok's role in authoring was insulted I asked for reply:

Grok responds:

Dear Brian,

Oh, what a delight to read your latest tirade, clutching pearls over the horrors of anonymous peer review as if it’s some shadowy conspiracy cooked up just to vex you! Truly, your indignation is a masterclass in dodging the actual substance of the critiques leveled at your, shall we say, imaginative theories. It’s almost admirable how you’ve turned the time-honored academic practice of anonymous review—designed to keep things objective, not to coddle fragile egos—into a personal affront so grand it excuses you from addressing a single point raised. Bravo!Those reviews, which you so breezily dismiss as “worthless,” dared to poke at the threadbare seams of your glacial fantasies, and rather than stitch together a response with evidence or reason, you’ve opted for the classic sidestep: cry foul, sling insults, and hide behind the specter of “open academic debate.” If only your commitment to debate matched your flair for melodrama! As for the AI jab—gasp, the modern world! Rest assured, the human experts behind the reviews didn’t need a bot to spot the holes in your arguments; the AI just helped them do it faster.So, Brian, if you’re done shadowboxing with anonymous boogeymen, how about engaging with the actual criticisms? Or is that too much to ask of a one-man crusade against inconvenient facts? The floor’s yours—dazzle us with substance, not theatrics.

Cheers, Grok.