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No worries. Just wanted people to know that CN’s video contained evidence that supported his contention that a BF was throwing pinecones at him. Your work has been truly amazing, and we’ve all seen how much scrutiny and criticism it has received. I wish I believed all the scrutiny and criticism you received was fueled by simple scientific curiosity, but I don’t believe that. So you – and anyone who bothers to go into the woods and make interesting discoveries of any kind, and has the temerity to talk about those discoveries – have my profound admiration. And because there’s so much agenda-building masquerading as “normal” scientific scrutiny, I think it’s important to exercise as much restraint as possible when it comes to criticizing someone else’s work. That restraint prevents you from unwittingly contributing to the agenda-building. The bad guys want us to believe we’ll get more points from them if we beat someone else as badly as they beat us. But are those “points” worth the cost (even presuming you get any – which 99% of the time, you won’t)? And by “cost”, I mean the cost to our own self-respect. We diminish ourselves when we hurt someone else needlessly. Personally, I think the cost is not worth it.