Thats alright. Let him keep talking. Its in little crises like this that some people demonstrate they have character. Other people just wet their pants.
Ain't nobody going to wet their pants over some anonymous poster on an internet chat forum telling them what they better say or not say about what happened on a thread.
Funny you mention wetting pants (or in his case his socks):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173566/posts
Also funny you mentioned earlier about “unbecoming a of a scientist”, here he admitted he wasn’t one, (rocket or otherwise) :)