Paul Wilmott has responded ("Copulas and Cults") to the Wired article on copulas I mentioned recently. His tone is grave: "Far more serious, because it extends to all of finance not just to a single model, is the poor education that people get in university financial engineering programs and also the blind-following-the-blind behaviour that is so common throughout the industry" and his punchline comes in the middle:
Question everything. Switch your brains back on.