But yes, it's true: I don't know MS-SQL, and nobody else at EDA does either. So we were faced with a choice: find a few people who did know it, pay 'em a bunch of donated money to write a formal report behind closed doors, or do a public review and exam even if that means exposing any mistakes we make, knowing they'll be caught pretty damn quick.

False dichotomy, based on the unproven assumption that there was anything nefarious going on that required urgent exposition.

You have found Jesus Christ in a potato chip.

With all due respect to an eminent and brilliant physicist, Freeman Dyson is not a climatologist.

But Dyson's argument in fact questions the methods and claims of the science of climatology. If his argument is valid, then it does not matter that he is not a climatologist - it makes Dyson's criticisms more urgent, not less.