Lately we have seen a surge in thoughtful and interesting comments on this blog. To those participating in the discussions, thank you and please keep them coming.

We try to respond to any comment that is substantive and critical, though when there are as many as there have been lately, we may go a few days at a time without responding. I’ve just posted responses to the latest batch, excluding the comments on our latest post (“a conflict of Bayesian priors”) which I will get to later.