>The idea that electricity "does not exist" is just verbal sophistry along the same lines as "matter does not exist, it is frozen energy" or, "you do not exist, you are a figment of your own imagination". At best these are all just over-dramatic and misleading ways of saying that what these things actually are is not what you probably think they are. At worst, misguided eccentrics create "straw" definitions of such well-known words just so they can burn them and trump them with their own untenable notions.

"You do not exist" or "matter does not exist" might be unhelpful sophistry or they might be thought-provoking invitations to a deeper discussion. It depends on the context and the intent.

If this blogger is "basically sound at an experimental and phenomenological level", isn't demanding public denouncements and retractions from everyone using the term "electricity", and has no shortage of thoughts and elaboration about his "eccentric" thoughts on the subject then what exactly is the harm here? Where is this user's uncharitability and hostility coming from?

Drilling into definitions, or "quibbling over semantics" if you prefer, isn't always fun for everybody but that doesn't mean there's an inherent need to come in and break up the party.