People will also click the little red x if they suspect they’re being mocked, which will happen in all the important cases: when the reader actually considers believing in cold fusion or what have you.
Is that obvious? The people who will consider themselves to be personally being mocked will be the people who are already strongly believe. But those people are the ones where articles like this are least likely to have any impact on anyways. If one is aiming at the potentially credulous rather than the believer, that shouldn’t be an issue.
People will also click the little red x if they suspect they’re being mocked, which will happen in all the important cases: when the reader actually considers believing in cold fusion or what have you.
Is that obvious? The people who will consider themselves to be personally being mocked will be the people who are already strongly believe. But those people are the ones where articles like this are least likely to have any impact on anyways. If one is aiming at the potentially credulous rather than the believer, that shouldn’t be an issue.