"This forum has much of the schoolroom about it. Any odd "new boy" is fair game."
I really think that misrepresents how things are here. Several "characters" have been treated with kid gloves for a long time and people only got annoyed when they insisted they were absolutely definitely "right".
Seems fair enough to me. And why shouldn't scientific assertions be questioned, when they are patently based upon misreading and misunderstanding of scientific principles. You yourself recently got fed up with nonsense-mongers on the Portal. Is your attitude different here?