What you've identified is a primal dismissing of criticism as a discussion technique with any merit. The same could be directed back at your comment, which woul

What you've identified is a primal dismissing of criticism as a discussion technique with any merit. The same could be directed back at your comment, which would create a funny but useless negative feedback loop. As in, your criticism of the author for not having an engineering background means nothing because if you have an engineering background you're not qualified to render an opinion of a journalistic enterprise.