But if his intellectual rigour forbids him making common cause with people he thinks are wrong, that perhaps only shows he is indeed the rottweiler of legend.

• 然而这一批评根本没有道理，如果他坚决不与那些他认为是错的人为伍，那他就仅仅是传奇人物的一条看门狗，而非著名科学家了。