# What is your problem, Chronos? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519 "2025-11-03T03:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 181
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/181 "2025-11-23T17:59:31Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > My take is that a lot of the people who are picking on Stranger are because he disagreed with them on one of their precious topics. It’s certainly possible that he is wrong in some areas, but I’ve not seen it in any topic I’m familiar with. Do me! Do me! 🙂 The following isn’t meant as harshly as it may sound, but we only know he is wrong when it is about a topic we have somewhat deep understanding of. If your areas of deep understanding overlap with his, then you may not run into it. I hesitated a few days to post this, because really, I don’t want to pile on the guy, especially as this thread going the way it has has already made this place unfun enough for him that he is minimally taking a break … but seriously examples have been brought of where … there are opportunities for improvement. The issue is when he is like asking ChatGTP - sounding absolutely authoritative but just posting hallucinatory stuff. Like the AI he will also also post good stuff that is on the money. Which makes it hard: he isn’t like some posters here with long lived Pit threads who are _reliably confidently_ wrong. Examples in this thread … I don’t know anything about Santa Barbara but apparently quite a few posters here know quite a bit and it sounds like he was extremely confidently way off. And dug in when called on it. The bit about the impact of replacing petrofuels having “a substantial continuous impact on global heating because water vapor is a potent if not persistent greenhouse gas” … just wrong. First of all because petrofuels _already_ add water vapor to the system, and secondly because, no, water vapor is not in general a potent greenhouse gas (with possible exemptions in certain specific locations maybe?). You can read the old thread I had linked to for details. The traumatic brain injury one? Maybe not completely off base but off the mark. I’m not going to look for the various medical ones that had me going “huh?”, honestly some of them sound so very confident that I’ve questioned my own understanding some and wondered if he was aware of something I’m not. But not. One example easy to find is his answer to [treating a wound](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-treat-a-wound/996091/12) - not everything he said was wrong but some was just … what? As [my reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-treat-a-wound/996091/18) to his post noted. Again I want to make very clear - I think overall he adds lots to this board and I am sad that this thread has had him stepping back from participation, at least for now. The are some whose absence I would not be saddened by, but him? I _very much_ hope he returns. But that doesn’t mean that criticism of his overconfident misstatements is just sour grapes from those who have disagreed with him. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519)._