In today's world it is suicidal to resist the flow of information coming at you. With a drop of a bomb my scorched body becomes one with a charred piece of wood. Zen holds the key to peace on earth. This poem needs a topic sentence. Most people are not open to what they do not know or what they do not understand.
Credentials are important in the real world, in Zen as well as in academia.
The burden of proof is on those who claim to have been abducted by aliens. North Korea has missiles targeted at Nagoya, one of Japan's industrial centers. Einstein's general relativity has been challenged by extraterrestrials among us with whom we cannot communicate. The interstellar blackness resembles the chasm lying between species. Science is open to anyone who wants to join.