The best among scientists are far better than bean-counters, all right. They are people in search of knowledge and truth and understanding. That's good.

The people who customarily attack and ridicule other people for talking about matters of interest that lie outside their conventional comfort zone, however, are the people I'm objecting to and lampooning in this thread...because their attacks are based on negative emotion and extreme prejudice, and some need to protect their own idea of "reality", and are not prompted by the search for truth or understanding. They reject things out of hand that other people have experienced directly, merely because they think they are so smart and well-informed that the other person simply couldn't possibly know anything useful about something that they have already decided is "impossible".

That isn't the search for truth. It's the defence of ignorance, and the smug assumption of certainty. It's like the Pope saying: "Look, I'm infallible, the Catholic Church knows all there is to know about this, and you're not even anyone important in the Catholic hierarchy, so I KNOW you're wrong. You don't know the Catholic jargon. You don't know the creeds. You've never been confirmed. In fact, you're a dickhead, an idiot, a Birkenstock-wearing, New Age, vegetarian numbskull space cadet who probably believes in leprechauns."

That's the kind of attitude I and many other intelligent and reasonable people must put up with whenever we choose to discuss anything that "Ohh-Ahh" and a few other arrogant pricks on this forum don't already believe in...as if they had reality all sewn up in a handbag, and nothing more to say about it. Pfui. I return them the contempt they have chosen to inflict on others.