No amount of common sense can make up for statistical facts that are presented in a well written response to incorrect data.
That is not hubris nor is it being full of one's self. It is applying what one has learned along the way to approve or negate a hypothesis that has been presented.
It ends up making everyone better informed !!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one should ever be chastised/ignored/belittled for presenting the truth with statistical facts to back it up ,in a well presented concise manner.
And that my friends is what has been going on here .
That is what these kind people are trying to say has happened to them in the nicest way possible if I may be so bold to come to their defense and to mine

And to those championing " Free speech" even for those they despise.- even "Free Speech " has limits imposed on it by the constitution.You cannot yell fire in a crowded theater .You cannot just write stuff about people and and just because you write it ,believe that it somehow becomes the truth .That is NOT what is meant by" free speech".That is why there is something called libel .
Libel involves the making of defamatory statements in a printed or fixed medium mmm possibly the internet??? though traditionally in magazines and newspapers.
However the the super highway falls into this category in ever increasing numbers since it's inception.

In peace
GnP