text: Nothing uncivil below....but instead this is a response to "deHaas" own comment using his own language, which remains on this website.
  
  Bill, no need to go low and small by hurling pointy little invectives: "such a big word for RD".
  
  Please refrain.
  
  You would not be wrong to put "Ph.D." after my name, but no need for that. This is not an Engineering journal.