I don’t usually post about internet drama, but this is an exception for two reasons. First, I’m cooling my heels at Midway Airport with a slightly delayed flight, and second, there’s a lesson here about how woomeisters respond when their pseudoscience is attacked, and how they distort data to pretend that many great advances have been stalled by “bullies” like myself.

Although I don’t check Twi**er, I get notifications on another email account when someone tw**ets at me, and I saw this tweet from Deepity Chopra, sent into the ether this morning:

This was, as you see, also tw**ted at Dawkins and Shermer.

But when I looked up the article to which Deepity linked, it was simply the exchange of letters we had after Deepity called me a bully and flaunted his credentials as a Real Scientist. But that appeared last November! Why would Chopra be tw**ting this now? And who is the mysterious “Prof Weiss”?

Then, looking at the comments, I found said Dr. Weiss, who left the mini-essay below about 10 hours ago—four months after the original post. (I also see that there are 658 comments—far more than I get on this site—but I can’t bear to read beyond the first ten or so.)

Dr. Weiss, it turns out, is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego. And something made him put up a post defending Chopra after four months. His lucubrations are below; I have put the parts that interest me in bold: