

Often enough, their viewpoints have been discredited already. To me, it’s rarely worth the effort of disputing bunk information if it’s clearly wrong and the person writing it is not engaging in good faith. I know some people enjoy debating, but I prefer to save my sanity most of the time.
There’s an interesting history behind the word colonel. IIRC, the English “coronel” and the French “colonel” used to be used somewhat interchangeably. Eventually, we kept the French spelling but the English pronunciation.