It may be difficult and frustrating to have to take time away from actual research and productive work to deal with dishonest attacks, but in the current highly charged political atmosphere, it’s necessary

The difficulty and frustration are apparent here, at a non-scientific blog. Watching Charles and the lizard army take on first the creationists, now the climate denialists, has been educational and almost painful. If it’s this hard to read the discussions, I can only imagine how hard it would be to have to defend one’s own work from the same lying arguers making the same debunked points over and over.

I admire your patience. I don’t think I have it.