If it is bad, you’re in good company. Around Halloween, I had a lengthy conversation with InvidiaRed over insect mouthparts due to a throwaway line in his story, and just yesterday I made an author on another site blink by explaining how much research I had to do to figure out if you could use water to hide from something that sees infrared.
*notices everyone else staring*
It’s more complicated than it seems, okay? The infrared spectrum is huge!