"Yet you have no compunction in joining the baying pack in attacking those that do have the expertise. "

But when we did, on the other, now closed, thread, have an actual academic historian with actual expertise (called GUEST, Modette), that person was driven away by abuse such as "where did your degree come from, back of a cornflakes packet". I can't remember now whether the abuse came from Teribus or Keith or Akenaton, I suspect the first of those.