[Sorry, again discourse cut the end of my email message away. Here is the missing end – hopefully.]
BN: If in place of “someone else” and “that person” we understand that you mean “Rick Marken” it’s very close to outright name-calling. He could perceive it as a personal insult.
That is up to you to understand it how you want. At the moment I have no time to go to archives to search evidence, so this time I did not want to point any named person. But again in this kind of forum it should not be a personal insult to say about some discussers that they seem to act like the owners and defenders of the pre-existing truth.
I really think that that the most dangerous dysfunction – a mother of all dysfunctions – in scientific discussion forums is that if some (or all) act so as if they already know the truth and their duty is to keep all the suspects, heresies and alternatives out of the forum. From this can then follow flawed arguments and other dysfunctions.
Eetu