Flight Safety, I wasn't meaning to imply that you were one of those who don't care or don't know. That was just an explanation of why not all scientists are on the same track.
The definition you quoted is not completely laughable. I don't agree with the word "fictitious" (perhaps that part is laughable).
The presssure of your body doesn't necessarily swing the door open, it just adds enough load to the latch to allow the door to travel in a straight line. Put your seatbelt on and without pushing at all on the door, open the latch. You'll find that the door wants to swing open without the pressure from your body against it (car is turning away from that door).
As far as the head smashed into the windshield. I don't consider any apparent forces being created there. Your head and the windsheild have different speeds. When they meet they collide. No forces required. It's the same as shooting a bullet through the windsheild from a distance. The force that accelerates the bullet stops acting on the bullet shortly after it leaves the barrel, yet guns are effective at distances that go well beyond their barrels.
Travelling in a car puts you in a non inertial reference frame when the car is accelerating. Accelerating includes changing the speed and changing the heading. If you're stationary on the ground, you're in a non-inertial reference frame. That's how the coriolis force that causes air to circulate lows rather than head toward them is explained.
You seem to understand most of this material. Is it just the terminology of the apparent vs real that you don't agree with?