This is the strangest thread I’ve ever seen on FR.
Accommodating and encouraging someone’s delusional thinking is not a kindness.
That’s what they said to many scientists.
Your response is exactly as outlined in the classic text that is required reading in most graduate research programs, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn.
I not only demonstrate what I am stating, but can explain it in detail with evidence based medicine and neuroscience. I share to help people better understand themselves, not to elevate myself.
In the past I found that people project the perceptions onto others that most resembles their own personality characteristics.