Look, folks, we all know that 99% of what David Sternlight posts is garbage. Why don't we all pledge not to answer any of his posts, and then he'll go away. If necessary, someone can be appointed to post a weekly "the views expressed by David are junk and we are deliberately not replying to them directly" message.
David has plenty of places to argue with the wind. We don't need to add this one.
I'd like to ask people to publically pledge that they will not reply to David's messages. This is such a pledge.
One of the desirable results of free speech is that people get to listen to ideas rather than credentials. Some poor Joe from the ghetos has just as much freedom to speak because he may have good ideas. Given that, ignoring someone is much worse than to listening with reservations. Ern