  Lieberman and Melott built their recent arXiv preprint 0704.2896 on my
published paper and (a preprint of) a subsequent comment by Liebermans
associate Cornette. But had this group waited for the Cornette comment to
actually appear in print together with the expected Reply, they would have
learned that his comment exposes Cornettes confusion that likely was due to
journal misprint of my figure. Thus 0704.2896 is baseless. Despite receiving
the extended Reply with Errata, these authors still fail to recognize that
detrending of paleontological records-which they erroneously promote as a
must-is an arbitrary rather than a universal operation.
