I have a blog with a regular following. I am posting some information that is quite new and I have identified when it first was published and when I first found out about it. Nevertheless, somebody is turning it into an insult to people who made a big impression but probably retired from teaching before any of this information was published. I have explained that it can't be an insult because there's no way they knew about it, and the researchers did not do their work in order to insult anybody but were following where the information led.

Has anybody seen this before and how did it work out?