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I'm attacking what you actually said in the article. You're attacking what your own statement of what you think I believe.

Engineering choices are always tradeoffs. If they're founded on ignorance, they're bad choices--always. Your article is trying too hard to be cute and funny and comes across as ignorant. I assert that promoting uninformed decision-making is both intellectually dishonest and constitutes a much truer form of "cognitive poisoning."

You may well understand what they are and have a well thought out nuanced opinion, but the quote shows none of that. It sounds like an out of hand dismissal of the whole concept of schema which would be pretty ignorant.

*edit I misspelled ignorant... irony alert

The quoted statement was hyperbole. I followed it with as much nuance as I felt it made sense to get into in the broader context of the article.

There's quite a big difference between "no reason" and "lousy tradeoff."