[smacktoward]

There is surely a continuum between "unassailable logic" and "no research," no?

I've just read waaay too many blog posts (and tweets, and statuses, et al) making assertions that even the briefest, most cursory amount of research by the author would have proven incorrect, or at least more complicated than they seem at first glance. Like, a single Google search, you know? When I find a piece of writing where the author went to the trouble to put in that effort, it automatically goes up in my estimation a few notches.

I take Nietzsche's words about "knowing and over-acute readers" not as a call to not research your subject, but rather to write about it in a way that's accessible to the broad public rather than to experts on the topic. Good writers take complicated subjects and make them seem simple.