"My facts are all wrong, but I'm right anyway".You aren't a CBS producer, are you?
Where did the quote come from? Those are quotation marks aren't they? Commonly accepted usage of quotations is to indicate that someone actually said the statement. Let me assume you were asserting this was my idea and answer you accordingly. I neither asserted nor implied facts. I used a hypothetical example, which you found error with, and to which I readily made acknowledgment. An error which wasn't substantial to the argument in any event.
You haven't offered to refute my point. So for the record, is it your position that the scientific community is open to embracing the discussion of new ideas, which are counter to accepted theories? It is my assertion that personal prestige generally overrides scientific method. (again a hypothetical example) That a professor with 12 books, a good lecture circuit, and a prestigious reputation, is scared of a new theory, which if true, would nullify his life's work. Further, it is my assertion that this leads to a herd mentality.