  Mermin states that his nontechnical version of Bell's theorem stands and is
not invalidated by time and setting dependent instrument parameters as claimed
in one of our previous papers. We identify deviations from well-established
protocol in probability theory as well as mathematical contradictions in
Mermin's argument and show that Mermin's conclusions are therefore not valid:
his proof does not go forward if certain possible time dependencies are taken
into account.
