Just the opposite, if what you were saying were even remotely true, we wouldn't attach names to anything, including scientific papers. To suggest that people s

Just the opposite, if what you were saying were even remotely true, we wouldn't attach names to anything, including scientific papers. To suggest that people should hide behind pen-names to discuss the most important ideas of any given era is to accept and promote the vicious kind of black listing that is apparently happening all to frequently. Names also provided a basis for reputation, we don't just publish any old bloggers words, that's not enough filter. Bloggers can blog, other institutions can publish. The sane thing to do here is probably to publish his work if it meets basic editorial standards and that's it.