Caught in the nanotech crossfire

Richard Jones and I have inadvertently been caught up in a rather unfortunate (and hopefully short-lived) spat. This initial post on TNTlog briefly reviewed our blogs, pointing out that we are both "real scientists" and celebrating the fact that we are "bailing out of our ivory towers". While there may be "no such thing as bad publicity", it quickly attracted a scathing response on Howard Lovy's NanoBot. Richard quickly stepped in to defuse the situation in admirable fashion, so I'll refrain from commenting further.