What happened to discussion/debate in the reptile community?

[RAD House]

I am all for intelligent discussion and i tend to agree the old guard can be hard headed. Let's be honest often their methods are functional or they wouldn't have been in the hobby for so long. On the flip side I often see new recruits injecting some opinion that they have not tested themselves as fact. To be honest this is far more dangerous than the functional advice of the experienced members of the hobby. For example I am part of a facebook bioactive reptile group that is vehemently against racks for ball pythons, but from what I can tell the people that post this stuff either own a couple ball pythons or even none at all. They often use a study that found ball pythons can be found it trees, but if you read the the study even they admit this is a small subset if the population and really only includes juvenile males. I am all for pushing the hobby forward but be sure to introduce your information for what it is, untested ideas not fact. Also please provide the sources you used to form said ideas, so that it can properly be discussed.