Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
So you answer a post that begins "I was expecting this answer. Nothing at all addressed, an insult towards me and a boast about how smart you are." with more of the same - i.e. something that boils down to I'm cleverer than you and I'm right and you're wrong.

How to not win friends and influence people springs to mind for some reason.
This is at the heart of the matter for many conspiracy theorists*, a desire of some sort to appear intelligent by apparently knowing something most others don't.

The question they really need to ask themselves is how likely is it that I have discovered a truth just from sitting at home on my computer that billions of people, some more educated and hard working than me, haven't?

*"Climate change is made up so politicians can get rich" is a classic example of a conspiracy theory