No. Dinosaurs weren’t “monsters” or “lizards”, even for those that were fully covered in scales, this is specifically one of the main things we’re trying to fight against. Dinosaurs are animals, not monsters, and they are dinosaurs, not lizards, lizards aren’t even remotely closely related to dinosaurs, you might as well be saying that kangaroos are lizards.
Not only that, but the association of early dinosaur=featherless is likely vastly false, as we know at least theropods and ornithischians had a feathered common ancestor, and this likely is not ancestral to only dinosaurs, but ornithodira (pterosaurs+dinosaurs) in general, since the pycnofibers of pterosaurs are quite similar to dinosaur proto-feathers, and it seems more likely that both groups had a fuzzy common ancestor rather than both closely related groups convergently just evolving an important trait like a whole new form of integument.
People who “disagree with feathers”, or more so refuse accuracy in general, are actively working to cover facts and misinform people. There is a reason why we are trying to take this issue head-on, and people saying that we should “chill” only feel condescending, especially when it’s followed by spitting utter bullshit (like comparing dinosaurs to lizards and such), which is just further proving that we cannot “chill” on this issue.
If we chilled, no one would be speaking up against the media and awesomebros, and they’d have even more free range to keep the public in the dark and pick and choose what the public gets to glorify and what it gets to point at and mock. They made this is into this stupid “scientists ruin our childhood” fight, and, ultimately, we have to fight back, otherwise no one else will.
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