“You can’t back up what you say either.”
Back it up to whom for what? Do you think I care what you or anyone else thinks about my opinions or me?
I live my life by the principles I know to be true. You live yours in any way you choose. But I have to say one thing out of kindness, ff you do not have enough character to know you are right without the approval and agreement of others, you are a second-hander who will never know what true freedom and integrity are.
You second-hander collectivists will never understand the independent individualist. I wrote the following article years ago for those who were truly independent individualists so they would learn they never had to apologize to the likes of you.
http://theautonomist.com/autonomist/articles13/hated.html
Hank
”Do you think I care what you or anyone else thinks about my opinions or me?”
Obviously you do or you would not bear so hostile a demeanor.
You’ve made a reckless brag you cannot support. Now you think to bull your way through with bluster and aggressiveness. Pee Wee Herman with a ball bat.
“. . . do not have enough character to know you are right without the approval and agreement of others”
Compounding your error by demonstrating your ignorance of the purpose for peer review. Peer review is not done to seek approval. It is done to catch error. Error in the data; in the methodology; in the statistical base; in the reasoning or the logic of the construction or the conclusions of the study; error where ever it is to be found. It may be difficult for you to understand this, since you seem unable to admit it in yourself, but people do commit error, and the peer review process is intended to correct this human failing, the sometime obvious abuse of the process notwithstanding.
Now, I’m going limit the further humiliation you can do to yourself by closing with an offer to you that you may have the last word.