Some folks think I am pretty negative. They cite the many articles on my website in which I take certain concepts to task, correcting them, showing them as fallacies. "Man, you are always harping on some alledged inaccuracy or misconception, constantly on the offensive."

Well, I have three comments to make about this. First, actually, I am not all that negative. Taken overall, a very small percentage of my website is given over to corrective information. That's objective fact. But subjectively, I am a teacher. What if I do have some confrontational material? It's necessary in the informational climate we live in today, wherein everyone is an expert by virtue of having webspace. There's a lot of crap out there. There is much on the Internet that is spurious, specious, and just plain wrong.

Second, those who charge me with a curmudgeonly attitude, I ask, when you go to your doctor, do you want him to not mention anything he has found that should be a concern? He says, "Hey bud, that natural supplement will do nothing for your heart disease". You going to call him arrogant, a curmudgeon, self-absorbed? Do you think in medical school they don't spend most of their time learning about disease, it's identification, prevention, and cure? Think again. As a career votech (vocational technical) instructor and lifelong mechanic, I am like that medical provider, in at least that simple way. How then could I avoid the corrective angle? Can't.

And third, unlike many writers on the 'net, I don't bury my readers in page after page of non-essential verbiage such as 1000 words on spark plug construction. Who needs it? I get right to the point and stay on point. I suppose in contrast this appears abrupt and insensitive. But it is far from that, as you must know if you have read even a fourth of my articles. Not that I don't have the ability to write fairly exhaustively on a subject. I just tend to shun articles such as that, and no more want to inflict that on visitors to my site than I want it inflicted on me.

So get over it. ☺