Only if your argument is shoddy. And since most of the stuff that John Larkin posts here is shoddy denialist propaganda - which he's too dumb to recognise for what it is - it often does provoke a reaction from me.
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is the IEEE Spectrum version of the story John Larkin picked up in "The Register". See if you can spot where The Register version injects the denialist spin.