Creative Speculation

... have produced exactly 0 valid technical arguments, and time after time, we find that the arguments they advance depend on just ignoring any evidence and reasoning that they can't force-fit into their theories. "Appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy even if you're talking about actual experts, but you're talking about chemists who don't know how iron microspheres are produced and architects who don't know anything about structural mechanics and high-school physics teachers who don't understand physics and "scientists" who are baffled by paint chips. What Gage's 2200 number really tells us is that only a tiny fraction of one percent of the "architects and engineers" who have heard or read his bullshit have fallen for it, which means that as a group, they are apparently far less gullible than the general population. But the number really doesn't matter; what counts is WHY they believe what they believe, and you simply refuse to confront how flawed their arguments are.

And c'mon, wildbill, 15 minutes before this post, you dismissed relevant evidence by just labeling it as "sophistry," just as you typically do, and now you want to talk about people who "actually take time to look at the evidence?" What a hoot.