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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Let's talk this out. Not the biochemistry aspect, but the smuggery.

Was their post smug? Yes. Factually incorrect? Also yes - I'm a microbiologist, I took my share of biochem courses.

Your response was equally smug as well as condescending. Their comment was wrong but innocent in its intent. Yours, conversely, intended to disparage their comment and them as a person.

What do you intend to gain here? Not with the correction - that is valid, but it's entirely possible to correct without being smug, condescending, and denigrating. What do you think that adds to the conversation that a simple, polite correction would lack?