It's a funny insult! thats what it is IMO! pissed myself when I read it...
How long have you been using these pellets for exactly? Do you have a science degree and have you run extensive experiments on more than 10 beardies with paper, wood pellets and paper pellets and other various substrates? And have you done this from birth of the beardies to a significant age/length of time say 5 or so years to thoroughly conclude your findings? And done this under the close supervision of a highly experienced respectable scientist? Or are you one yourself? I highly doubt it! I may seem to be overexaggerating with that, but its nothing different to what you have been doing the whole time
Just putting it into a language you are more familiar with pantspie
Also, you may not have experienced impaction via your method of substrate for various different reason, i.e. they haven't eaten enough of it, may not have been cold enough, you may not have been using it for a long enough period of time etc etc etc. These are probably the same reasons why some haven't experienced problems with sand as a substrate!
Also, a day to break down? Thats insane and IMO enough time to cause impaction if in the right circumstances...Although I have never been fortunate to experience it myself, nor have I shoved a camera thingo down their throats to monitor the breakdown process of the pellet... (So somebody with experience in impaction correct me if I'm wrong on the time it takes to get impacted...) have you? doubt it... If you had forced one or two down thier throat then a gastroscope or whatever they're called down their throats to monitor and film it, maybe your argument wouldn't be so unbelievable...I personally would love to know the REAL results of this instead of your assumptions and backyard experimenting with more water than would be in a beardie's stomach and no stomach fluids the key to conducting a proper experiment to show similar results to what would really happen, is to replicate as best you can, the environment and ingredients that your beardie actually is in and is eating etc etc...Something no average backyard scientist can do.
Why not just let them use what they use and you use what you use... and just accept it! There really isnt anything you can do to change their minds and obviously nothing they can do to change ur opinion... I personally think they are both just as bad as each other and prefer the use of newspaper... something I know for a fact they wont ingest! Why not try newspaper? or do you have some other random reason why its bad and will cause impaction? Forgive me if you havent stated your reasons previously, you HAVE been on a mad rampage on your high horse for the majority of this thread, and it has somewhat melded into a big blubbering blur to me.
Oh and incase you haven't observed it, beardies DO tend to taste a lot of their surroundings and when they are trying to get a cricket, like with sand, they can miss and get a mouthful of pellets! they may try to spit them all out, but some will still be ingested... I know this as my stupid brother uses petstore-bought plantation soil and wood chips and sand and all sorts of random substrates, much to my discust and objection... Yet he still has never once had a problem, except for dirty muddy beardies and blueys... Doesn't do much for my side ot the argument with him, but I can't stop him, so just deal with it as, eventually one will die on him for it and then I prove my case, but until then.... I just don't think about it... People, much like yourself panstpie, are very stubborn and somewhat ignorant at times, just accept that both sides are just as much as each other and deal with it...