Oh Nineteen. Nineteen. N-N-N-N-Nineteen. Don't take it to heart. If you are really open to proper discussion as you say, and I have no reason to doubt that, then you also have to be open to following the evidence where it leads. It's not simply a question of accepting what we say; if you post something that is known to be and can be shown to be wrong or misleading, and someone does indeed show that, it's not an "accept or die" kind of proposition. Nor is it an attack on you as a person. We're all wrong from time to time; what matters is our willingness to correct ourselves.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'