Except when this "opinion" is based on total bullshit. If someone actually thinks that reptilians caused 9/11, a simple "What the fuck, dude?" seems like a pretty valid response.
Nope. I'm hitting the evidence, data and hard facts buttons.
If your "opinion" is based in ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and/or defiance of any authority or the conventional and mainstream... you're a fucking idiot.
You're a fucking idiot and deserve derision.
"Defiance of any authority or the conventional and mainstream"... Isn't that a requirement for scientific discoveries? Consensus does not help, it hinders by making people assume there is no more to research.
Rational thought, evidence, and data are required, but peer review does not inherently make it scientific.
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1516
"Some of the most important and groundbreaking work in the history of science first appeared in published form not in peer-reviewed scientific journal articles but in scientific books. That includes Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Newton's Principia. Einstein's original paper on relativity was published in a scientific journal (Annalen der Physik), but did not undergo formal peer-review."
I can respect that they can have an opinion, but if it's blatantly stupid then they also need to respect my opinion that they're morons and should probably be sterilized.
If your "opinion" is based in ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and/or defiance of any authority or the conventional and mainstream... you're a fucking idiot.
You're a fucking idiot and deserve derision.
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1516
"Some of the most important and groundbreaking work in the history of science first appeared in published form not in peer-reviewed scientific journal articles but in scientific books. That includes Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Newton's Principia. Einstein's original paper on relativity was published in a scientific journal (Annalen der Physik), but did not undergo formal peer-review."