> Some people can just let others be wrong and just stay silent, but some people can't help themselves.
As one of thoes who cant help themselves; the way you phrase it feels a bit too cynical, I've always interpreted it as people want to help, but don't want to offer something that's wrong. Which is basically how falsifiable science works. It's so much easier to refute the assertion that birds generate lift with tiny backpacks with turboprops attached. Than it is to explain the finer details of avian flight mechanics. I couldn't describe above a superficial level how flapping works, but I can confidently refute the idea of a turboprop backpack. (Everyone knows birds gave up the turboprop design during the great kerosene shortage of 1128)
It depends on the medium and the cost of looking like an idiot. On the Internet where some tosser is going to call you names anyway? Saying dumb shit to nerdsnipe someone else to do hours of research and write an essay on it for you, at the expense of them calling you an idiot, is cheap, and easier than doing all that work yourself. Meanwhile, at work, I'm the one getting nerd sniped into doing a bunch of extra work.
As one of thoes who cant help themselves; the way you phrase it feels a bit too cynical, I've always interpreted it as people want to help, but don't want to offer something that's wrong. Which is basically how falsifiable science works. It's so much easier to refute the assertion that birds generate lift with tiny backpacks with turboprops attached. Than it is to explain the finer details of avian flight mechanics. I couldn't describe above a superficial level how flapping works, but I can confidently refute the idea of a turboprop backpack. (Everyone knows birds gave up the turboprop design during the great kerosene shortage of 1128)