It is my own
position, except that the «strength» of the isothermal argument is so much greater than that of a temperature lapse — given that it
straight up violates the second law of thermodynamics — that the default
position of any real scientist should be
roughly the same as it is whenever somebody proposes a perpetual motion machine, or that they can negate gravity by means of a simple electronic device they built
in their basement, or have worked out the One True Theory of Everything
in their spare time,
in spite of the fact that they never actually took calculus or physics
in college (or may not have attended college).