In reply to Peabody :
He started it!
At the library my wife struck up a conversation with a science teacher. She mentioned a knowledge-hobby of mine so I chimed in. She mentioned a couple other authors like the one I enjoy, then went on to gush about a widely-discredited "science" book and patronize ppl who disagree with its major tenets.
Perhaps happily, I think she was too into the idea that everyone agrees with her to detect me dissing the guy's hack job work, and we later went our way on good terms.
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