I'd normally ignore this sort of thing, but there's so much of it that it's making the environment worse for everybody else and it has to be tackled. This just

I'd normally ignore this sort of thing, but there's so much of it that it's making the environment worse for everybody else and it has to be tackled. This just a lazy straw-man-style troll. There's little of value in what you've said, because: 1. The thing you said used to happen didn't, and 2. The thing you say is now happening, isn't. Of course, you're not being literal, and there's probably even some kind of point worth discussing underneath – but unfortunately your delivery doesn't help to explain it or encourage anyone to engage with it, and instead just contributes to the poisonous, pointless, shitty background noise we now all have to put up with. I'm sure you even might actually want to make some kind of useful point about how our opinions on research can be coloured by our political views, or maybe about how there is too much preconditioned scepticism about results that fly against established consensus, or something like that. There is a positive value in having those conversations in a constructive manner – but there is nothing but negative value in your shit contribution here, and you are making this site and our entire society worse. Please for the love of god just stop.