Monty - point of logic for you. Being wrong on item A does not *automatically* make someone wrong on
item B,C... etc, even if in your mind they are discredited. What it reasonably does is lower the probability, in your opinion, of them being correct.
Harsh to render people as untermensch on the basis of being mistaken, when in fact we all make mistakes.
Do you always apply this logic yourself? Even if someone is continuously wrong
about a subject, you continue to give them the benefit of the doubt that one day they might be right? Or do you stop listening to them?
But now you say continuously wrong. Each time they are wrong lowers the probability of them being
right in future to the point when they should eventually be ignored (within that subject area). They might know nothing about football but they might be a leading authority on 18th century military uniforms.
Not because one day they might be right, but because you like them.