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33/ I swear I am not making this up. Yesterday I got a Facebook friend request from someone I had never heard of, and I ignored it. I realize today that the person's name was "Wiles Licher". (Same as the email address above) Zero friends, account one month old. ... should I??
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34/ This is probably paranoid, but I'll give a warning anyway: If anyone gets an email from me about this business, please reply to my MIT email address to confirm that it was actually from me.
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35/ This thread has become way more sensation than it I wish it were. So let me say something that probably needs saying: the mysterious "Wiles Licher" is very likely some third-party troll using this controversy as a chance to mess with people.
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36/ The reality of the claims in the paper will be decided (by people closer to the situation and more expert in the field than I am) on the basis of data and reproducibility. Weird shenanigans are a distraction to the important question.
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I’m now very pleased my people have managed to produce a very entertaining physics drama 😎 Is there a physics drama Oscar? Wiles Licher is an unusual enough name I’m inclined to suspect an anagram.
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I certainly hope not. The account is now deleted, but PR claims that just before it was deleted it had one public message: "Remember: Julius Caesar went too far!"
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