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Originally Posted by Gillianren
In my experience, "go read a textbook" more frequently means, "Wow, this would take more than 5000 characters to explain, and you really ought to have an in-depth knowledge of it before claiming it's wrong," but that could be just me.
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I can think of specific examples where the ATM proponent showed lack of knowledge pretty much across the board in basic science, to the point where they flatly didn't understand questions or responses to their own questions. While many issues were pointed out and discussed in detail, the lack of knowledge was so extreme, there simply was no substitute for their own study. At some point, the only reasonable answer is "Go read a book and here are some suggestions."