That wasn't the most fortunate way to put it, but I thought the part about furthering the debate would have clarified the previous part. I'll try again: "Seems

That wasn't the most fortunate way to put it, but I thought the part about furthering the debate would have clarified the previous part. I'll try again: "Seems to me he's just searching for sticks to hit people with, instead of doing new research and redoing others research to confirm or reject previous conclusions." Yes, being sceptical is valuable. But not when it's just scepticism. Do some research. Test your hypotheses. Test theirs. Test them again. Test them differently. All of that helps further the debate. It gives us better facts, more facts, a more complete picture of the real world. It helps, it's good. But saying "you missed a spot" is useless. The science may not be perfect, but then science rarely is perfect anyway. At the end of the day we're looking for the facts, not the perfect experiment. Want better science? Make it. Forward a new hypothesis. Test it. Let other people test it. And over time we, humanity, will figure out which theory supports the facts better. That's science. Some 1000-word op-ed article without any citations is not.