It's impossible to consider everything by its merits. There is an untold deluge of information out there, vying for our attention. We have to filter it somehow.

It's impossible to consider everything by its merits. There is an untold deluge of information out there, vying for our attention. We have to filter it somehow. If someone acts exactly like all the other idiots in the history of "science," then they get filtered out until they have something better to show.