Yes, this fellow should "burro" his way into some "hole in the ground" and stay there!
(I know these are not the allusions that you intended but this is a family forum.
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Look, you did right by not linking to his article. One of the worst drawbacks of the internet is that it gives a platform of speech to everybody. Everybody and his stupid brother has something to say. When it's done freely (such as what I am doing here
) it's bad enough.
But when it's commercially incentivized, it takes on an air of urgency and legitimacy. So say it was ESPN where this guy is paid to spout nonsense (just a wild guess). You go there for sports news (urgency) and you consider it to be a trustworthy source (legitimacy).
The problem is, there are so many people talking at once, saying the same things, that it's hard to find something original to talk about and thus differentiate oneself. Especially if somebody is paying you to write a blog.
So the pressure produces nonsense from such fools. Why did you do a good thing by not linking to the article? Because such fools are rated by internet clicks. As they say, don't feed the paid trolls.