You're right of course, but it's always better to fight BS with something as close to objective truth as possible, rather than even more BS. Reacting to BS wit

You're right of course, but it's always better to fight BS with something as close to objective truth as possible, rather than even more BS. Reacting to BS with one's own BS is totally understandable given the emotions involved, I don't blame anyone for that. But ultimately it does nothing to help counter the BS that was being reacted to.. It mostly just provides an emotional outlet for the author (which is fine, a lot of great writing has no higher goal). However, if someone's goal is to help change the state of things for the better, much better to start making shovels and passing them around, than to manufacture one's own "good" BS to counter preexisting "evil" BS. This is an observation about the world in general, nothing specific to this article. Less BS is always better than more BS, always and forever.