Constant Admirer
My colleague Anneke Valeros’s letter (AIR Vents 14:2) about my letter (AIR Vents 13:7) about Valeros’s attitude toward hydrophilic molecules claims that she has not revised her view of detergent chemistry. She quotes her role model, Richard Dawkins, and says, “Like many scientists, I am delighted to acknowledge occasions when I have changed my mind, but this is not one of them.”
Piffle. I repeat here what I have repeated elsewhere many times. Valeros did shift her opinion. I can only repeat (quoting Valeros quoting me quoting Richard Dawkins, who was my role model before he was Anneke Valeros’s role model): “Like many scientists, I am delighted to acknowledge occasions when I have changed my mind, but this is not one of them.”
Burlei Rimsz, Ph.D.
Kalamata, Greece
(That’s an excerpt from the article “Air Vents,” published in AIR 14:3.)