Of course the answer is that this isn't really about the quality of teaching, it's about xenophobia.

Your mind-reading ability is astonishing! Somehow you are able to get into the minds of the people involved and you know their motivation! Have you ever considered running for office?

Actually, there is a very good psychological term for what you are doing here. It's called projection. Since you would do this from some xenophobic motivation, you assume that everyone else must, as well, since it's impossible to imagine people who think differently than you do.

It's worth pointing out that the mass of neutrinos has never been directly measured. The "mass" to which we refer is the mass required for a mixing matrix between the neutrino flavors. A more exotic definition of "mass" would be required if the current experimental result were to hold, in such a way that neutrinos wouldn't have "mass" in the sense to which we refer today.

That's all speculative, of course, but the important point is, again, that the neutrino mass has never been directly measured. I know. I tried.

Been a long time since I looked into it. He may have a novel implementation of the Vicenty formulae. A computational geometry paper may publish it, but probably it is easier (and less burocratic) to do so on a smaller conference.

The Vincenty formula is just a truncated series expansion. it's fast and pretty stable except near antipodal points. It has plenty of accuracy for real-world applications. Any improvement would need to be in speed or in stability for antipodal points.

Since real scientists don't use pejoratives like "denialist" in referring to those with whom they disagree, one is forced to conclude that you have not actually educated yourself at all, and that you are not interested in the science at all.

You might want to educate yourself a little more about science before posting nonsense like this.

Since real,

Wow, what a surprise! Just like electronic voting machines, I'm absolutely certain they are invulnerable to hacking.

And we all know what a neutral, unbiased source The Nation is!

That's the problem with magnetically confined fusion. NIF will be inertially confined.

Which it shouldn't, as C, C# and C++ seem pretty distinct.

And what about Objective-C?

Calling R a programming language is like calling Mathematica or Matlab a language. R is a system for statistical tasks that has a language and snytax, and but it is not capable of producing stand-alone executables that do not require the entire R environment.

Wouldn't it be nice to send the friendly folks from the BSA to do a complete software audit of the MPAA?

Maybe an auditing circle-jerk could be set up: the BSA investigates the MPAA, who investigates the RIAA, who invesigates the BSA, etc. ad nauseum, and they could just leave the rest of us alone.