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Here’s a paragraph from the rules that is relevant to this thread:

Generally speaking, inflammatory, hyperbolic or overly emotive rhetoric is the sign of a troll and should be avoided on the CFI Forum. This community exists, first and foremost, to foster inquiry. Inquiry does not flourish in an atmosphere of heated rhetoric, mutual vilification or recrimination. Disagreements should be kept, as much as possible, to the issues at hand and not become overly personalized. To take but one example, pointing out a person’s lack of scientific qualifications when discussing scientific issues is on-point, but referring to someone’s political beliefs is not. Since they risk degenerating into flame wars, abusive forum threads or posts are subject to immediate editing or deletion.

Which means I’m not going to get involved as a moderator in the quality of the science discussed. I’d rather not have to make judgment calls about what is a witty retort and what is inflammatory. And I especially don’t want to sort out “who started it”. If everyone would take a look at the rules, particularly #3(f), and police yourselves, that’d be great.