The purpose of this thread was to discuss the content of the video. I'm not sure how your comment relates to that.
As for the straw man and non sequitur fallacies, I agree with you and appreciate it when you point them out. On forums, and even in political speeches, half of all arguments today are sophisms. You absolutely must avoid them when you express yourself here, because they are logical fallacies; you don't even have to respond to them on the merits, because if it's wrong in form, the argument is irrelevant. As for personal attacks, I would be more nuanced. We need to distinguish between cases where the person being attacked is one of the participants in the discussion, in which case it's done to invalidate what he or she is saying but without arguing about what he or she is saying, so it really is a personal attack, and cases where the person is a public figure like Musk, where the criticism is acceptable, since he or she is the object of the debate because of his or her public actions. But of course if you were to criticize him without mentioning any facts or by talking about his private life, you'd also come close to making a personal attack, as in the 1st case. As far as the purpose of this thread is concerned, I have to consider that the video is just a pretext. "Killer Patents" or "Secret Science" are the ridiculous terms used in all the conspiracy theories about free energy. The video's authors say it themselves: "The Why Files is a channel for people who are fascinated (obsessed) with mysteries, myths, legends and conspiracies." This is not the purpose of the forum. I don't understand why we continue to feed these tall tales here for people "obsessed" with "conspiracies", even if it were to condemn them.
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