Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? Controversial threads tend to devolve into people swiping at each other, and emotions run especially high in a crisis.
I don't think there's any reason to exclude an article on the basis of who wrote it. Articles should be excluded because they're off topic, bad, or uninteresting. Essays on CS from virologists would likely be of high interest to this community.
Besides that generic argument, which has become a bit of a shallow dismissal lately, there's the fact that pb is writing about a project he's personally involved in and which hasn't been discussed here before. It's understandable if there's interest in that.
I don't think there's any reason to exclude an article on the basis of who wrote it. Articles should be excluded because they're off topic, bad, or uninteresting. Essays on CS from virologists would likely be of high interest to this community.
Besides that generic argument, which has become a bit of a shallow dismissal lately, there's the fact that pb is writing about a project he's personally involved in and which hasn't been discussed here before. It's understandable if there's interest in that.