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Style loses out to the truth; if you get beaten over the head with the truth, the truth is right there - if you are gently steered towards it, you will go off-course a significant fraction of the time. I understand your position, but what I am trying to say is that "less head-beating, more gentle steering" is not the solution, but "I choose to ignore that feeling" is.
In my own case - the gentle steering was far more effective than the head-beating.
IMO there is no way that I would have gone off course with "here is a link showing you a proof of why X is not true" (where X is what I originally claimed) yet is was gentle enough for me to be quite happy to go off and read said link and find out for myself.