Fury/Taking a Break

USUALLY I go to STOMP forums to just hang out and relax in this virtual world where everyone's friendly and cool and all. It used to be a good distraction to all the stresses of real-life, and those who I've met the recent gathering are equally nice in real life.

BUT being me, I feel that I have a responsibility to correct any fallacies of logic or fact in the forums. It's like, I know my stuff, I can see what's wrong, so I have this need to correct any mistruths. Especially when it comes to medical mistruths that can be disastrous if taken too seriously.

It's getting tiring. It's not easy to construct a reply. Everytime I do it I have to make sure I get my facts right, and often it requires some Googling or refering to books. And I have to fend off all the rebuttals to my posts, no matter how illogical they are.

There's this recent barrage of medical mistruths on the forums - one says that if your stools float you're getting enough fibre. Another says that right-sided neck aches are caused by some little obscure muscle in the neck - how come so many of us have neck pain with tenderness that can be outlined by the shape of the trapezius muscle rather than that little deep muscle?

That same person also says that neonatal medical research ought to be done on the babies of medical professionals before they are done on the public. That'd be so very easy won't it - finding enough children to do large-scale studies from such a limited and biased pool?

I have had it with the forums for now. There's too many idiots who're trying to push their radical viewpoints - some even extremist-religious, too many idiots who're just plain insensitive, too many idiots who simply don't care about the people behind the nicknames and avatars.

I'm taking a break for now. I dunno for how long. A night? A week? I dunno. Hopefully those idiots get bored of being idiots soon. Oh I'll still be lurking around, should anything regarding the Ghost Tour need my reply.