It wasn't "let's have a chat", it was "here's an evidence bomb of how you're all wrong". We shouldn't really take someone's degree of divergence from reality a

It wasn't "let's have a chat", it was "here's an evidence bomb of how you're all wrong". We shouldn't really take someone's degree of divergence from reality as somehow being a point in favor of their argument. When people remove themselves so far from reality, ignoring significant mounds of evidence, nearly anything not divorced from reality is going to have the effect of an "evidence bomb."