Talk:Robert B. Laughlin

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Two anons have made clumsy edits which need to be checked and cleaned up or removed. Note that 71.139.62.252 (talk · contribs), aka the snfc21.pacbell.net anon, and 68.126.46.19 (talk · contribs), aka the pltn13.pacbell.net, are both suspected socks of Jack Sarfatti, who has been permabanned from editing the WP. ---CH 00:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the second paragraph, I removed the last phrase from the sentence "In the period of 2004-2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, a tenure full of controversy." Since there was no other mention of any "controversy" and no reference, I found it prudent to remove the allegation. I did a GNews search for articles from 2006 with the string "laughlin kaist" and found several entries seeming to support a controversy. Sadly, many were behind paywalls and the rest were in Korean. So while there may have been a legitimate controversy surrounding Laughlin's tenure at KAIST, I cannot currently find sources to corroborate. JFlav (talk) 18:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

.. would be nice as long as he is not dead yet (I hope:). Richiez (talk) 10:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since a release of Fedora Linux is being named after him (Fedora 14) in recognition of his work...should that be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmaxel94 (talk • contribs) 01:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[1] If it is not about climate, why is is called Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and Climate?

Russ Roberts is not a reliable source on anything scientific. He is an economist and market fundie, and he interviews notorious denialists like Matt Ridley and Bjørn Lomborg. Never use him as a source when the word "climate" is used. --Hob Gadling (talk) 14:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I misread what you removed, and have now undone my undo. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 15:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But I should remind you that WP:BLP applies on talk pages and as a general rule you should not make disparaging comments about unrelated individuals on this page. Jonathan A Jones (talk)

Those are not disparaging. If I am not allowed to call unreliable sources unreliable here, Wikipedia fails. You made me give up on categories (see here), but you will not make me give up on articles. --Hob Gadling (talk) 05:00, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]