Delete comment from: Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
Hi Bee,
I asked the same question from the people I know at PI: "So, did you talk to Sabine about this conference? Did you tell her that it's really a waste of time/effort/money?" Their response was that since everyone is entitled to organizing conferences, it's fine if you do it too. In addition, they couldn't care less what dubious conferences are going on as long as it does not interfere with their research. This is exactly what I think too. You are entitled to organize this conference, the apparatus and infrastructure of PI is there for you. However the aforementioned members of PI as well as me are entitled to have our opinion on the conference. Our opinion is clear: it's a waste of money/effort/time. Again, this is fine, since you are entitle to waste as much of your money/effort/time as you desire.
Concerning the reputation of PI: my statement is not very rigorous but based on similar statements made by people (tenured, postdoc, etc) from all across the board of hep (hep-th, hep-ph, hep-lat) except gr-qc. Since gr-qc I don't think amounts to 10% of hep (please correct me if I was wrong) even if I exclude it from my survey it can not effect the result more than 10% which is anyway as big as my original error bar.
Best wishes,
Phenomenologist
Sep 16, 2008, 7:12:00 PM
Posted to Science is a Worldview