Michael B. Weissman is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has worked mostly on condensed matter experiments, especially on low-frequency noise in disordered materials. He has worked in botany and chemistry departments. His undergrad degree is in math. Since retirement he has used statistical forensics to help catch a couple of fake pollsters and has written papers on numerous errors in causal reasoning in physics education research publications.He did time for Vietnam draft resistance and was an originator of the scientists’ boycott of the Strategic Defense Initiative. He thinks that libertarian philosophy is factually detached from the realities of our species, implicitly cruel, and will lead to environmental catastrophe. He supports unions and is considering changing his opposition to the designated-hitter rule. That change may be the result of neurological sequelae to Covid. His email is mbw@​illinois.edu.