They
begin with a very funny bit in which Gervais
talks Neeson through a loaned anecdote, continue with unused moments from the sci - fi convention (including an appearance from the seventh Doctor Who, Sylvester McCoy), and end with an extended version of Davis» struggle to get a personal endorsement from Gervais and
Merchant.
At that time, it was just personal, and so what happened then was I mentioned to a couple of colleagues what was going on, and one of my colleagues at Scripps, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said to me, «You should
talk to Ben Santer, something sort of similar happened to him,» and that's when I first got to know Ben and started
talking to him, and that's when the whole «
Merchants of Doubt» story started to unfold, that Ben told me what had happened to him, and then the pieces
began to come together, because one of the people who had attacked Ben Santer ** was Fred Singer, and he was one of the people who was attacking me.