"By all means challenge everything but describing something as fuzzy isn't challenging, it's just brushing aside something you find inconvenient. "

I don't find it inconvenient, I'm simply making my own mind up. I'm sure those august institutions are full of people far cleverer than I (not at all difficult), but I don't see the point in arguing over their wording.


"As you advance in your field you won't just have to convince yourself but others as well and if you challenge orthodoxy you will have to put up a very good case."

Wow. Do I appear that dense? Were you spying on my last supervisory panel meeting? Does it piss you off when the proles get into academia? It's amazing I've got this far really isn't it?