> Ranga Dias, an applied physicist at the University of Rochester […] rejects Hirsch’s allegations. He asserts that Hirsch isn’t an expert in high-pressure phys

> Ranga Dias, an applied physicist at the University of Rochester […] rejects Hirsch’s allegations. He asserts that Hirsch isn’t an expert in high-pressure physics and that he has a history of claiming that the Nobel Prize–winning “BCS theory” underlying superconductivity is incorrect. Dias says Hirsch relentlessly badgers superconductivity researchers. “Hirsch is a troll,” Dias says. “We are not going to feed this troll” by providing the data. What’s with the namecalling? Could have just left it at the facts.