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by corkill 3974 days ago
They might value that knowledge being kept private to them more than debunking the article in the short term.
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This might be the time to drag out the old quotation "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

In general your point is correct, there is value to secrecy in some instances. And often people who really know whats going on can laugh at naysayers. But, for example, if someone said they have a perpetual motion machine, and laughed at people who questioned it, the laugh would seem more like delusion than informed confidence.