If the end-goal is to convince the reader of the veracity of your claim that the BeLaU spherules are of alien manufacture, this piece does not help, and harms a

If the end-goal is to convince the reader of the veracity of your claim that the BeLaU spherules are of alien manufacture, this piece does not help, and harms a little. It does not help because you spend no time refuting the refutation. You imply that a refutation that doesn't take as long as the original claim isn't worth as much. But that is false. Coming up with one counter-example need not take as long as articulating the theorem. The harm, as I see it, comes from engaging with the mob. I believe that an honest scientist convinced of evidence of alien tech will know in their bones what an uphill battle it will be to convince anyone of this, and the fact that making such a claim will inevitably come with certain (unfair) labels and attacks. To make such claims and then get angry about those labels being applied doesn't make sense, to the extent that the anger itself reads as evidence of some kind of fraud. Is it possible for a scientist to be naive enough to not realize what this claim would mean for his reputation and career? Maybe. But the more likely scenario is simple fraud and attention seeking, and the anger another layer of performance.