It is an inevitability. We live in confused times and this is a forum. All sorts of things get said in a forum.
Look on the ingredients list of any snack food and you will find a warning. "This product may contain nuts". Even packets of nuts have that warning. Clearly, human beings are pretty confused and muddled if you legally must warn them that a packet of nuts may contain nuts.
Well, Internet fora also may contain nuts. Nothing much can be done about it other than mocking them or ignoring them until their threads sink to the bottom. If one is allergic to nuts one should stay out of fora or do one's best to ignore their rantings.
One of the great things about this place is Matthew's tolerance of such ideas and, let's be fair, we all let out a brain fart occasionally don't we? It is part of the process of thinking that, occasionally, even smart people have stupid thoughts.
Surely, this is what a forum is all about. In ancient Greece I am sure there were all sorts of crazy ideas thrown into the debate and the stupider ones shot down with wit, scorn and polemic. What remains and is deemed worthy of debate and discussion, argument and counter argument is the stuff good ideas are made of.