Suspend your concerns about Hartmann for a moment and read this....

[ymetca]

106. Just because someone is a "very well-regarded expert"

doesn't necessarily make their assertions correct.

Then you have to consider what might be their personal agenda, regardless of the media conduit.

And then you shouldn't disregard someone simply because of how you got the message, or other reasons having nothing to do with the actual statements made.

Then there's the problem of context. We all know how statements taken out of context get spun wildly in the aethyrs.

Ugh! I got a headache. No wonder we're all confused...