Originally Posted by TrumanHW
It's irrelevant. You know nothing of how people's trust is earned. You must be consistently correct, and always willing to update your information... I.e., not be emotionally committed to an inaccurate view. Hooker integrates a lot of information, searches to disprove misonceptions, and has even written about things that I DON'T find written about in many places... perhaps even being the first person to bring it to mass awareness... Is the work he does the gospel? No. Actually, medical journals aren't either. Nothing is impervious. But if it's just a little bit of tinkering around on the net and budgeting a few minutes here and there... why don't you pick a compound to write some original information about that people find useful enough to repeatedly view, and even steal. There are a few currencies in this society of ours... Sure, one is traditional money/credit/assets, and another is high status/regard. He has earned that. I think that is the concensus motives.
If you can't empathize don't make adversarial comments.