I am not sure if it's a thumbs up when they said the code was 'horrible' and 'buggy mess'. Key points to note: The authors reason that they had to adapt an old

I am not sure if it's a thumbs up when they said the code was 'horrible' and 'buggy mess'. Key points to note: The authors reason that they had to adapt an older version of the simulations code and hence did not have time to write everything from scratch. I think we have all been there. Reproducibility doesn't imply that the underlying model assumptions were free from flaws. As Taleb pointed out in another talk, "It was wrong to use point-estimates for distributions with heavy tails" The lead author Neil Ferguson was unfortunately caught up in another controversy where he left his house during lockdown measures to meet his "married lover". He had to resign from some of his positions but this shouldn't affect the research work he published.