It's a little hard to take someone seriously when they come up with a grand theory on some particular topic and then use a TV show as their supporting example.

It's a little hard to take someone seriously when they come up with a grand theory on some particular topic and then use a TV show as their supporting example. I had the same problem back in the Bush years when people would support torture by saying it worked on '24'. I understand that nobody is REALLY saying that something is valid just because it was in a TV show. But the fact that they couldn't think of a real life example of their position suggests to me that maybe they aren't informed enough to be having such strong opinions in the first place. For the Hacker News audience, it would be like opening an article on computer security with an example of "hacking" from the show NCIS (anyone who's ever watched it knows what I'm talking about).