[jmaygarden]

This is painful to read. It leads to a statement like the following.

"The foremost scientific authority claims that the Earth is flat. There is no need to be critical of this scientific finding. All opposing viewpoints must be shunned, and proponents of those contrarian ideas ridiculed and ruined."

[nitrogen]

Science has an ongoing process for correcting itself. This is a false slippery slope ("leads to").