Lewis is correct, in my opinion, which I can back up with reliable cites: *How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results*
Being a well educated reasonably intelligent person, I agree with anyone, when he makes a cogent argument based on logic, sense, reason, and facts.
I completely agree with Lewis that "experience" has its place, but any one person's experience doesn't trump the experts when the situation is thus:
- The dozen expert's cites _all_ said it was a commonly held myth.
- Those who believe in the common myth produced _zero_ expert's cites.
- Worse, they produced easily refuted bullshit (their video & photo).
Like a sleazy politician, those who proffered those photos and their own testimonials at the same time that they _refused_ to read the cites show very clearly that this isn't about facts to them; it's about dogma.
Rest assured anyone with adult cognition would instantly notice A. Vic Smith B. Xeno C. Amuzi
A. *Vic Smith* He produced a paper of perfectly good science, which performed destructive testing on already warped rotors, where those rotors were purposefully deformed in a thousand degree oven for ten hours. While this was helpful to them (they're discussing the value of heat treatments at the factory), it's not _directly_ applicable in its entirety to this discussion.
B. *Xeno* He strongly argued that his experience trumps _all_ scientific fact.
Worse, he constructed imaginary strawmen to attack since he had no logical defense to the dozen experts' cites which were provided.
Even worse, he said he doesn't need any expert's opinion, simply because he holds his own strongly held opinions based solely on his experience and on his experience alone.
C. *Amuzi* He seems to have understood the temperature dilemma, where he hypothesized that perhaps the required temperature was achieved only locally, which is an interesting hypothesis that the experts covered in terms of the effect would be cracking.
But what destroyed his good faith is he tried to pull a sleazy political trick by showing a doctored photo from a destructive test jig (much as Vic Smith did but Vic actually provided the reference but Amuzi didn't realize I knew _instantly_ where that doctored photo came from).
In the end, people are _desperate_ to defend the myth. What's interesting is that it's exactly what the iKooks do.
No amount of logic, sense, or reason will ever sway them from what they intuit - facts to the contrary be damned.