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From the blog: (not going to call it an article, it was extremely difficult to keep my head above the high level of bias):

There is a difference between debating something that is a true matter of opinion and entertaining an argument that is palpably false, between a willingness to look stupid in one’s personal quest for wisdom and the choice to actually be stupid by deciding that all theories are equally valid and deserve equal consideration.

I don't understand how the author can assume an argument is palpably false without examining the argument. Of course you can refute a faulty premise, but that does not preclude debate. This is what freedom boils down to: not being told by others what to think. If we can't have discourse and dissenting voices cannot be heard what is there to talk about? What's left?