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I'm bothered by the tactic of explaining a groups' qualms by postulating they don't really understand the material. It's just a shade shy of "Anti-reductionists are dumb."
The thing abut reductionists is that they think they're right.
Therefore, anti-reductionists are wrong.
Which means that anti-reductionists either don't have all the facts, or are choosing to ignore the facts, or are succumbing to other belief-in-belief-type biases.
When you're talking about someone you know to be wrong, the kindest thing that you can say about them is that they didn't have all their facts right.