Ereditato was worried about giving an interview, but I'd say the author (Ransom Stephens) did a good job of conveying the truth of the story. I feel nothing but

Ereditato was worried about giving an interview, but I'd say the author (Ransom Stephens) did a good job of conveying the truth of the story. I feel nothing but sympathy for Ereditato. Imagine the pressure he faced, being in charge of this experiment with results consistently showing faster-than-light neutrinos, having to be the spokesman for such an enormous and expensive project with such crazy results. The potential for embarrassment due to the no confidence vote might have been exploited by a less decent writer, but Eriditato seemed less concerned with his own reputation than the proper telling of how science works. Many scientists hoped that something weird had actually been discovered, some new physics, so it was a big letdown for them when it was all traced to the timing mechanism, and those egos are probably still smarting from hoping for the still-impossible. There must be a lot of people who have an axe to grind, even now. It's good to be able to see into the human side of science, to see how things can go wrong and how it can affect people, especially those who are in charge of organizations. It must be great to be in charge when everything goes smoothly, but otherwise, uh oh.