from elsewhere on Scienceblogs.com, which very clearly prohibits that behavior, was a kind off institutional endorsement. For that reason I asked Scienceblogs.com to have those threads cleaned up or removed, or something, and they went to Abbie and asked her to take care of that. Another month or two went by and she did nothing, so I asked again and Scienceblogs.com tried again but were apparently more insistent and she cleaned up her act. "lying sack of shit" comes to mind, but unlike you, a sack of shit can be useful if you're a farmer or a gardener, or in need of cheep fuel. You have yet to rise to even that level. In the mean time, I sent a letter to the head of her department indicating that they had a student who as damaging her own reputation as well as theirs, suggesting that they do their jobs as mentors and look into this. I CC'd it to the higher authority at that University as a matter of standard procedure. Within a very short time I heard rumors from remote places on the internet with Abbie Smith connections that this letter (an email) had been sent. Something very unprofessional had happened. Abbie, through her proxies, started to threaten me with release of the fact that I had written this letter. That was a great irony because my sending that letter was entirely appropriate and there was absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with sending it. You sent a letter to her