If only ad hominem's refuted claims. What a tender world that would be.

Don't really need to refute a claim with no evidence to support it written by someone likely not involved in the field.

People who are correct can come up with something better than an argumentum ad verecundiam.

Why should they? You throw out some nonsense claim and then it's on random internet folk to dive in and do the research to prove you wrong? Get over yourself.