Sean Lucas has apologized to me for the tone of something he wrote about me a few years ago. He did this publicly on his blog (here), and given the widespread attention this whole thing has received, I thought it would be good to extend forgiveness in a public way as well, which I am happy to do. I am happy to accept his apology, and am grateful for the way in which he extended it.
I understand that he is not retracting the substance of his criticisms, but rather for the tone of them. Nevertheless, I honestly appreciate him coming this far, and am happy to respond as far as I am able.
In the same spirit, I continue to express concern about the stacked nature of the FV study committee that Sean Lucas served on. If every member of that committee had publicly rejected the FV in a gentlemanly way, it would still be a procedural problem of the first order to assign nothing but gentlemanly critics to the committee. A committee can be stacked without being snarky, and at the end of the day, injustice is still done. And so that remains a central concern of mine.