Give The Guy At Least Some Credit

I will say this in mitigation of the criticism Eric Lipton brought down on himself with his injudicious tweet, he's a target of the industry-billionaire financed,  pseudo-public interest group, American Council on Science and Health, a group that doesn't get held up to nearly the amount of infamy it deserves.   Anyone journalist they go after can't be all bad, even if they do work at the NYT.   That group is one of the myriad of billionaire-industry financed propaganda fronts, the discrete, elite call-girl type of scientist-prostitution that does so much to spread BS.  It's the kind of whore house where most of the people working it are pimps.