" Despite many who added comments trying to educate people, those comments kept disappearing.
That might be because some might view life as "smarts contest", instead of a "sharing and helping" contest. It could be ole Dr. M has someone else admining and that person is just doing as they're told.
Woe to anyone not bearing a degree in a science, who puts truth in front of one with such a degree. It's like Copernicus taking on the church - which in its egocentric mindset wanted ever so badly to believe that the earth was the middle of all the attention.
Then again, I've seen lots of uneducated folk spewing nonsense.