There's no argument you can successfully make that, because the Basilisk is unconvincing, therefore Rationalists are intellectually bankrupt. The connection is

There's no argument you can successfully make that, because the Basilisk is unconvincing, therefore Rationalists are intellectually bankrupt. The connection is stillborn, because there's no path towards bridging the gap between this example and your conclusion. You will need to use other examples because this example is DOA.