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I’m working on the right way to express this correctly but it seems to me pretty reliable that willingness to comment in public on any topic makes it much more likely that the commenter is demonstrably wrong / an extremist.

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Maybe, but what's the likelihood that you're just demonstrably wrong / an extremist?

It happens :)

I do on occasion ramble on with unpopular opinions or say things which are probably incorrect

In that case, maybe you're just human like the rest of us.

There was never an indication the comment was supposed to be excluded from the generality. If anything, this thread is just showing it to be more likely (me included). The only way not to show it as such is to get an actual expert on the topic to post an informed opinion with reasoning or citations. This, as the original comment suggested, seems much less likely than us continuing to talk about it instead :).

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