I’m not one to ever put a tape measure to my dick (nor go comparing to those at the urinal - neither inclined nor stupid). But I gotta agree with your statement about the points made standing, regardless of your prose or whether you’re correct in the rare mystical art of punctuation. I only learned not only what is what and goes where by default (it hadn’t stopped me getting a PhD and lecturing, but peer reviewers are brutal and when you’re tenured and begin marking and assessing papers from first year undergrad to reviewing some Professor’s impenetrable jargon (secret info: it means they don’t know what they’re talking about… and why the journals award point (aka gov,t funding) with points increasing in direct correspondence to incomprehensibility). Like the rituals of a court room are used to stop you defending yourself, it’s one of near every professions closed shop status saver (well, in legal systems case, until the ‘professionals’ have ballsed it up enough times for you to observe the rituals and end the farce anyway).

Apologies for length (no pun). The punchline is you’re called out because they don’t like your evidence based notions … using correct unction and prose typically earns my heterosexuality a questioning. Like I’d give a shit. Like we have a say in the matter.