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?
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.
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?
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.