The BITE model has been deployed quite frequently, on this forum, as a smear. Even Hassan applied it inappropriately, when he realized it was a good tool for bashing people of the opposite political persuasion. It's like calling people racist. "Cult" and "racism" have specific meanings, none of which apply to the work of biologists. It's just another way of verbally degrading someone that you disagree with.
Which is why "fuck off" is the appropriate response.