What’s particularly annoying about the “Mars” article I keep denigrating is to actually refute it, you’d need to spend ten times as many words and time writing that rebuttal than the author did spewing his hogwash. That sort of Gish Gallop is how debates are often won. It’s too much bullshit to deal with so people just…don’t.

It’s disappointing that so many people just buy the contentions therein unquestioningly because the piece contains a lot of big words and suspect numbers. You know, I can use big words too. But I use the right words exactly where they fit. If only everyone bothered to do this.