Orac, you certainly don’t need to apologise for your confidence in yourself and your knowledge. I know I couldn’t do your job if they offered me ten times your salary.
Unfortunately your propensity for launching vitriolic attacks on others, and persistently putting down people with lesser/different qualifications hints at an underlying insecurity. This is a shame, because you have a lot to offer, and the fact that you post on SAGG suggests that you are prepared to offer that to “hitch-hikers”. Just don’t expect an old nit-picker like me to sit at your feet accepting every word. That would be tantamount to pretending I understood something when I didn’t. That’s not me.
History is full of such folly like classical physics itself as a prime example.
I have to wonder how arrogant it is to describe classical physics as “folly”. Surely folly would be believing something when you had evidence that it was wrong. Shouldn't classical physics be seen as providing giants on whose shoulders future generations can stand to see greater things.
