That's not paranoia. He misunderstood what this is about, jumped to conclusions, and now can't backtrack. Notice how Lazare started by rejecting the validity of the exercise as:
> "absurd assumptions with no bearing on reality"
But the argument suddenly turned into rejecting the credibility and motivation of the person proposing it as:
> "making a misleading graph to advance a political argument".
Also while his "demonstrations" kinda' sorta' make sense when viewed from the plane, it's the details that are completely off that give away that there's no formal knowledge or training behind them but a mish-mash of ideas probably gathered from the media, internet, and his personal conclusions and assumptions.
The whole line of reasoning for this discussion is that all physics problems that assume the ideal gas, the perfect sphere, etc. are unrealistic, so they are political statements. Don't feed the troll.
> "absurd assumptions with no bearing on reality"
But the argument suddenly turned into rejecting the credibility and motivation of the person proposing it as:
> "making a misleading graph to advance a political argument".
Also while his "demonstrations" kinda' sorta' make sense when viewed from the plane, it's the details that are completely off that give away that there's no formal knowledge or training behind them but a mish-mash of ideas probably gathered from the media, internet, and his personal conclusions and assumptions.
The whole line of reasoning for this discussion is that all physics problems that assume the ideal gas, the perfect sphere, etc. are unrealistic, so they are political statements. Don't feed the troll.