Wow. Referring to Nassim Taleb just by his last name? Has he really attained that level of status? He doesn't deserve it IMO, especially around here, with his fearmongering about GMOs and his debate style on twitter.
I actually think Taleb some very important things to say. Or at least, he seems to be the loudest and most popular of the folks who are talking about epistemology, and it's an important topic. I think it's reasonable to call him Taleb, without specifying a first name, because there's no other Taleb that makes sense in this context (no other Talebs that have authored a book called "Antifragile"). You didn't experience any confusion, did you?
He has a perfectly legitimate argument against GMOs. If you don't agree with his argument that's one thing. But this sort of argumentation style, the same type of ad-homniem attack employed to discredit people by labeling them conspiracy theorists when the don't go with some status quo usually corporatist agenda, must stop. It's lazy and dumb.
> If a GMO-imbecile ask you for "a citation", answer: "Pls provide a citation about requirement for a citation for a logical argument."
He finally deleted the idiot tweet in question, but it's preserved here: http://web.archive.org/web/20150924032003/https:/twitter.com... Note also the responses citing his own university's instructions on how to cite stuff for a logical argument.