You are responding to a conservative commentator who is trying to muddle and make non-scientific conservative positions more palatable and less non-sensical. I

You are responding to a conservative commentator who is trying to muddle and make non-scientific conservative positions more palatable and less non-sensical. I have noticed that wealthy, educated, conservatives (for tax benefits) work hard to justify and provide some vaguely scientific and logical grounding to all kinds of weird conservative talking points. This might be by punching hard at some corner of the liberal/scientific consensus on an issue that is not quite well developed or the audience lacks full detail on. This equalizes both liberal and conservative positions as some what unscientific, while the reality is quite opposite. You will never find rayiner attack conservative talking points, only liberal ones. You think you are in a scientific discussion, but you are actually participating in a political one.