BeepKillBeep, I’d be very interested in such a thread, particularly if it were to focus on what could actually be done to help these people understand the defects of their reasoning. I mean, to me, it’s just such a great waste: millions of hours of intellectual work going to waste chasing mirages, simply because nobody ever managed to give them the right tools and expertise.
But most approaches seem to just lead to a doubling-down. You tell them they’re wrong, they’ll just consider you too stupid to appreciate their genius. You tell them why they’re wrong, and precisely because they’re lacking the right tools, it has no effect at all. So what’s a good strategy here?