Todd,

The point of my response is basically that EQF has for years asserted a number of questionable points:

He argues that the seismological research community is wasteful and incompetent, that he knows more than we do, and that lives are being lost because we don't pay attention to him.

The way I see it, we are tackling a difficult problem, we know more than he does, and most promising leads to earthquake prediction are being followed.

So rambling insinuations like
"There is no organization anywhere on the planet that I know of or which any of my contacts knows of which has the goal of collecting forecast data from a variety of sources and combining and evaluating them to generate a life saving forecast."
are irritating since he has no contacts he can name, nor can he save any lives.

Thus I post somewhat critical comments.

John