AN IMPOSTER IN OUR MIST (aka “Have I been punk’d?”) — by Steve Nadis
I’m not sure what it means to be, or have been, “punk’d,” but I think it might have happened to me. I noticed on Google that someone with my name (a rare one, to be sure) posted a comment on a blog about evolution. The blog was written by a guy who (I’m pretty sure) has the same literary agent as I do. He was writing about an event hosted by a physicist that I know. (He has the same agent too.) The comment–allegedly written by someone with my name–refers to a foundation with whom I’ve also had dealings. But I’ve never visited that evolution blog site before and surely did not write a comment that went on for about five paragraphs. So what’s going on here? Has this same person used my name when commenting on other blogs? Is this another case of blog comment identity theft?
