[He's something of an amateur linguist and a professional information miner; such details aren't lost on him.]

You're right, there's nothing wrong with being a little skeptical...just don't get like some people that arrived a few cycles ago. They're insisting that it's possibly to surgically remove the wings without ill effect, when there is all ready documentation on how removing even one is terrible on the body.

That's not something we can explain by science. It's just a fact of this world.