If you want people to believe your claims, you’re going about it the wrong way. Everyone would have believed the Wright brothers had built a successful heavier-than-air plane* if they just brought it to DC and buzzed the Mall, but that’s not what they did.
* No lie, I actually have this photograph as my desktop right now.
I just finished writing a long reply were I address the ad hominem claim:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/218/what_is_missing_from_rationality/1xn4
I’m answering the comments, please stop reading if you consider it off-topic.
If you want people to believe your claims, you’re going about it the wrong way. Everyone would have believed the Wright brothers had built a successful heavier-than-air plane* if they just brought it to DC and buzzed the Mall, but that’s not what they did.
* No lie, I actually have this photograph as my desktop right now.