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At SSI we are most certainly aware that USSM posters, as a group, do NOT know what they are talking about.
It is exactly as in chess. There are masters, and there are "knowledgeable amateurs," who are a pox on the skittles room. The guys who DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW are a peril to themselves and everybody around them.
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Just as one example, their failure to grasp the difference between:
A convincing meta-study, with general consensus, and awareness of the minority opinion, vs
"I think I might have read an article somewhere" a/k/a "recent research suggests"
Is appalling. But the elitism is more so.