>>"those high status people make which are NOT credible themselves will be accepted, or only gently rebuffed"
If you spoke up then your story of 'people with particular status not being challenged at all' was lacking. It's probably a form of hyperbole but it was your evidence that I was trusting to make the assumption about your action. I'll try to be more careful.
Here's an example from the first page of my comment history. Me responding to pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342860