Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz)]

I just read through the whole thread and I saw quite a few people engaging.

Thanks much for reading through the thread. At some point, one has to follow one’s (imperfect) preferred style, despite its not being to others liking. People come in different sizes and shapes, and I happen to write this way. That is one reason I think it is best that I discontinue taking more of others’ time, given that I think I have shared the basics of what I intended to share and sharing more would not make a difference anyway.

Believe me when I say I have seen and read much, much, longer material on this forum, and off-site, variously well-organized/expressed, or not, by those in the forum, and it never ever crossed my mind to judge their style of writing and stigmatize them by calling them long-winded or their text verbose, even when benevolently expressed. This is simply because I am most interested in what people have to say than judging their language skills. Nobody’s perfect, unless you think some are. I am used to reading long (and brief) material and I appreciate it when I find someone is trying to elaborate more on topics, even though they may express things in ways that is not my style.

What is unreasonable for me is to accept that simply because others decided not to engage with me, that automatically qualifies their views as being reasonable and evidence based. How can one even assume that, and even if so, regard it as being a fair peer review? I mean, some folks may have their own or another favorite view to defend, and so on. I cannot even know whether someone who never engaged with my views is right or wrong, and those who did share, I responded to. Peer review does not happen in silence, and to expect that to be a reasonable way of peer reviewing is odd and quite unfair.

I mean how can I judge someone being correct, when I have not even heard anything from them. Should such “peer review” evaluations also be “actually based on observations and some evidence”? What is the evidence for someone agreeing or not and passing a judgment at my views, when they never bothered to say anything substantive and verifiable? That does not seem scientific to me, as far as peer review is concerned, and it does not matter to me what their credentials are. We don't have gods in science.

I am grateful for the engagements made so far, however. I just feel that it is best not to take more of their time since I have already shared what I intended for whatever it is worth, and if I find more things to say I will just share it in a way that does not take time from this forum. I realize these exchanges themselves are also taking others' time, so hopefully I won't need to write more on this matter and it stops with this post.