Sure - but do they engage in scientific debates with non-experts? There just isn't any value with that. Imagine someone like Paul Graham "Debating" RFK on whet

Sure - but do they engage in scientific debates with non-experts? There just isn't any value with that. Imagine someone like Paul Graham "Debating" RFK on whether Wifi causes "the blood brain barrier to open and allow toxins in" -- the level of misunderstanding you'd have to correct and education you would have to provide just to get them to a point to understand how WiFi works and how non-ionizing radiation propagates is just massive. The base of their understanding is the essence of "Not even wrong".