I am more inclined to listen to someone with an OM than a poster on here who calls out the owner of the blog, who just happens to be a Phd and best seller.

But, WaddaIknow?

Logic depends on facts.

No, it is the other way around, facts and theories can usefully need logic to be constructed and tested.

But there ends the dependence. I find it curious indeed that people tries to assign static truth values to facts, as they are a dynamical property of the process of knowledge gathering. Facts and hypotheses doesn’t have truth values; before observation respectively verification they are in degrees “not known, possible, impossible, likely, unlikely”, and after they are “accepted, rejected”. Formal logic comes up empty in describing this process.

For Phil to call mere mention of details of these topics “antiscience” or “pseudoscience”, and to report them dishonestly, is trolling of the first order.

It is antiscience simply because you attack verified science without a factual basis. If anyone attacks verified science from a factual basis he is either a crank or, unlikely, correct – but a factually empty antiscientist is a fraud, “not even wrong”.

Btw, a poster can’t troll, as he is responsible for answering on his post. A troll is “a person who is deliberately inflammatory on the Internet in order to provoke a vehement response”. Such as, say, yourself.

While Phil’s intention is to enjoy himself, (obviously) present the science from his basis as a scientist, and keep a semblance of order on his blog. Which reasonably means keeping trolls short and, on a science blog, point out when people drags antiscience into it.

Which “plasma ‘work’” are you imagining? Plasma fluid dynamics is a mature field. Maxwell’s electromagnetics is more than a century old. For Phil to call mere mention of details of these topics “antiscience” or “pseudoscience”, and to report them dishonestly, is trolling of the first order. To level random accusations at anyone who calls attention to such dishonesty compounds it. Why not be part of the solution? Learn, and educate.