Dude, you opened your mouth without engaging your brain.How is that not rude?
No one says science has all the answers.Actually, that's not true, there are those who do. But regardless, science is a method, not a body of knowledge. It's a good, limited method for finding out certain kinds of things.
Why won't you go to bat for pro-science folks who don't like to be called idolator and nazi?Maybe he opened his mouth without, well, you get the idea. Or maybe not.
...anti-science kooks.How is that not rude?
"Dude, you opened your mouth without engaging your brain." would not be considered rude in my circles. In fact, it would be rather complimentary since the underlying assumption is that if the other's brain had been engaged the error would not have occurred.
We get challenged daily, hourly, by collegues; data that refuses to comply with our elegant hypotheses (which we like to call theories until the humbling process of writing them up as papers); and equipment with inconvenient limitations.