The lauding of those that engage in evasion, obsfucation and fallacy amazes me. The idea that the misrepresentation of methodology and result, insinuations of dishonesty and intimation of agenda where there is none, when presented in a certain way is admirable shows how myopic our collective vision has come as a society.

This is the same myopia that allows climate change deniers the run of the media, the anti-vaccination crowd to frighten uninformed parents into exposing their kids to deadly but preventable diseases and is intent on rolling back all the advances made in science, art and culture since the enlightenment, and way before.

Things are better said straight.