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Yeah, as I said, unnecessarily harsh. I also sometimes use marketing terms in my articles, and it’s not great.

• tptacek 2y ago
  Do you work in the field? The author of the NYT piece has a physics doctorate from UChicago.
  • kergonath 2y ago
    I do, and I do have a PhD (though the bar is not that high). Not optics or entomology, but nanostructures and radiation.
    • tptacek 2y ago
      See, this is why I'm glad I asked.