That dismissal seems a bit lazy and flippant too. Plus attribution of motive. Like it or not, there is a grain of truth to the idea that techies (young and old)

That dismissal seems a bit lazy and flippant too. Plus attribution of motive. Like it or not, there is a grain of truth to the idea that techies (young and old) are particularly prone to this kind of thing. We're rather notorious for it. It's a natural and predictable consequence of having often been the smartest person in the room, able to leap ahead of others who have studied a subject (only slightly) longer. Equating income with intelligence doesn't help either. It takes a while to learn that "opine first, study later" doesn't work so well when dealing with fields equal or superior to our own in technical depth and rigor requiring years of effort to gain expertise, or that it's actively dangerous to indulge such impulses when the stakes are far higher than all but a handful of computer bugs.