This was a painful example of motivated reasoning and a whole bunch of other psychological nonsense that leads people, people who should be in some sense scientific and rational, to glom onto a paradigm and not let go in the face of evidence.
At the point that aerosol physicists are telling you, *No, really, what you believe doesn't make any sense*, and you are telling the aerosol physicists, *You're not medical professionals, what could you possibly know?* you are at the point – if not long, long past it – to notice something has gone COMPLETELY off the epistemological rails.
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