Kind of like we are having a debate about style - excellent comments from dear friend KiMcG who writes:
It is perfectly fine to find yourself in a fury at liars who appear to be getting away with it. What you may want to consider it how best to disrobe a liar, in public, for maximum effect -- e.g. credibility damage to liar, least harm/disruption to you.
That's why I adopt a more clinical tone in my writing in cases such as these. Anger had to be carefully modulated, and name-calling kept to a minimum, in order to have one's point heard -- especially in a forum where many/most of your readers do not know you personally, and can only understand your emotions as they are expressed in a particular context. Written rage cannot take the same form that spoken rage does; it must be framed, and crystallized. Otherwise it's like reading about how someone feels like he's about to barf -- not appealing in either the run-up or the follow-through.
Maybe an approach for you is to break it down into bite-size pieces -- one floe at a time, if you will, rather than the whole damn iceberg in one go. Take one point, and one only, on any given day; find no more than three links most relevant to discrediting that one point. Write no more than one good (5-7 sentence) paragraph about the point and your disagreement, drop in the links, post, and breathe. Then you must let it go until tomorrow.
To do otherwise is to risk health and mind for people who have no regard for either. It also will give you no balance, no rest, and little perspective.
Shout or whisper, steely or hot, but be very aware of the forum in which you air your thoughts and feelings, and consider carefully the best way to express them to people you will never meet.
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Preserving energy/resources is not just an environmental concept; it is deeply personal. Especially when health's reins are being held by anxiety and adrenaline, calm is the only path to travel. The ride will be rough enough due to the driver!
Rants are always a good start. The get the thoughts and passions out. Then they need to be sorted by a steady hand and a cool head, to be presented as the best of all the elements they contain. But the main things an angry human teaches us is to stay at a good distance from him or her, and to be cautious in our words and deeds involving such an individual. The "best" battle? Maybe to act as bellwether -- pointing the way to the good information, the solid studies, the sound science. Communicating with those who do the work of compiling and analyzing the science, to offer words of praise and encouragement, or to offer a few moments of respite for them to express their frustrations over lack of attention/funding/results.
I have long seen one of my main modes in this world as helping the helpers -- not being on the front line myself, but staying just a couple steps back, ready with towels and bandaids and a hot meal...revival and encouragement so that the fighters can return to the fight. So I offer it as a worthy effort, a possibility you may want to try, to stop the personal depletion and frustration, and to be able to end each day knowing that in small ways you did great good. IT may not suit, but no harm in trying, eh?
- KiMcG