> diversity of the actual science means that there is _nobody_ who can be an expert in all areas and so refuting can be waved away. No, you just overthought it

> diversity of the actual science means that there is _nobody_ who can be an expert in all areas and so refuting can be waved away. No, you just overthought it. Consider Diogenes' refutation of Zeno's motion paradoxes. Did he invent calculus? No, he stood up and walked around. If somebody tries to sell you a magical medicine water alkalizer machine, just throw alkaseltzer tablets at their face until they fuck off. That's all the refutation that's needed. A technical 'rigorous' refutation wouldn't be understood by the rubes such con men target anyway.