Another fire RR article

I have a hard time reconciling this being a knock on pro-RR sentiment:

"we are cool, young and enlightened with graphs and charts... so follow us"

And yet this somehow being supportive of anti-RR sentiment:

"Remember: Truths and Facts are what they are, so don't be afraid to draw your own conclusions from them, even if those conclusions draw a crack in the concrete of your own misconceptions...."

The "cool, young and enlightened with graphs and charts" crowd, for example myself, The Mathlete, Brian, et al., provide falsifiable, replicable data, and conclusions based on those data. If you have criticisms of that research, and their respective conclusions, then there is ample room for you to do that. I mean like WIDE OPEN. I mean like you can download the same Excel document I put all that time into for The Decimated Defense, and look over it yourself, and draw your own conclusions from them, or show me where I made mistakes. In fact, I would LOVE it if you did that! Theories, to be good theories, need rigor, and since I'm pretty sure most readers went into reading that series already believing our talent level was causing many of the problems, rigor has been in short supply. If you are a person who understands scientific theory, rather than some Internet jackass trying to peddle his own beliefs and sneering at the insignificance of any opinion which isn't yours, then PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU, HAVE AT MY DECIMATED DEFENSE SERIES! What "truths" and "facts" have you brought to the table, Tom? And how do you know you're a "whipping boy" and not "just being an asshole?" I mean, you gotta prove this stuff if you want to go up against conventional wisdom and change minds. You can't just say "Truth" and have that stand as evidence that you're clean and everyone else is full of shit. In fact, using "Truth" as if it's your own provenance like that is a hallmark of the very kind of mindless punditry that you're here decrying. My mind's open. If you can prove to me that we're better off dropping Rich Rod yesterday, I'll be your biggest supporter. Proving means doing the legwork. It means leaving open the possibility that you're wrong, welcoming rigor, and not discounting any dissent out of hand. It means making all of those graphs and charts using available data, and then drawing your conclusions from them. It means going deeper than cliche, e.g. your catchy but essentially dismissive (and therefore intellectually vapid) "you know what they say about Excuses" post signage. I challenge you to do that.