And I can do that. But I have no interest for hunting down citations for information which you can verify for yourself with a trivial investment of time and energy.

I think you forget the economics of the burden of time investment. You spent the energy to write the original article, a small amount of additional energy for source material would have greatly increased any expected effects (that I can imagine you holding to originally write said article), and overall it is far more effecient for one person - namely, you, the author, to invest some additional energy into your article, rather than having every potential reader go and wastefully recapitulate the search on their own.

So not only is your approach rude, it is also ineffecient.

And I can do that. But I have no interest for hunting down citations for information which you can verify for yourself with a trivial investment of time and energy.

I find it interesting that you consider it trivial for others to verify the information with a web search, but, for you, it is a matter of "hunting down citations". It should be easier for the expert to find the sources.

finding evidence of that and displaying it would be quite a coup for anyone who dislikes me enough to want to eliminate me from this site

I, for one, am not interested in driving you from this site. I would rather see you become a better contributor, more capable of explaining your ideas without gratuitously offending everyone, without calling people morons for asking questions when it should be easy for you to just answer the question. This is why I said earlier that it is unfortunate that you chose not to support a well written article with citations.