&gt;  this criticism is very unfair, very hurtful, and mostly bullshit. You don&#x27;t have to believe me - but you now have a second data point for your consideration.<p>No I do not. All you&#x27;ve provided me is a point of view without anything resembling rational reasoning. I believe that trains can fly. You don&#x27;t have to believe me, but now you have another data point for your consideration.<p>&gt; this kind of criticism is impossible to defend against.<p>See my initial statement. All you have to do is point flaws in the above link.<p>&gt; To prove that it&#x27;s mostly bullshit would take me literally writing a book - in which I would surely make mistakes,<p>If you&#x27;re not confident in your ability to assess and refute an argument, then why bother making it?<p>&gt;  that then could be used to discredit it entirely in a single article.<p>Nobody is saying the article above is perfectly written, or that the critique is 100% on point, but that does not mean the broad point he makes has no merit. Same would be true for the hypothetical book you write.<p>&gt; When people read a powerful criticism &quot;debunking&quot; things about a group they vaguely know, the default for most is to agree with the criticism. For some reason it&#x27;s natural to humans.<p>Do you have any basis on which you&#x27;re making that claim? No, because if you did, you&#x27;d provide that.<p>&gt;  All I want now is to make people stop for at least a moment, consider that the article may be unfair, and to not make judgments before double-checking the claims.<p>But WHY? <i></i>WHY<i></i>? You&#x27;ve, objectively, given me ZERO reason besides &quot;it&#x27;s malicious and people are biased when reading debunking articles&quot;. You&#x27;ve clearly refused to engage in the content. You haven&#x27;t even quoted a single line and proved that it&#x27;s false. Whereas the article in question is an in-depth exploration of the community of people, their beliefs, the personalities involved, what they believe, their education background and many more things. What have you done? Nada.<p>I can go on and tear down your whole reply, but I&#x27;ll stop here.I come off with the impression that you&#x27;re taking this personally and therefore, as a natural response, you&#x27;re defending it, which is fine. I&#x27;m not trying to be a dick, but perhaps you should work on your argumentation and logic skills before trying to defend or take any side.