Darrell,

I share your desire and eagerness to portray the full truth to the public in response to the media half-truths (which I think are worse than lies!). Yes, funding would be great, but might it not help to get funding if there FIRST were a "grass roots" effort, that started say on this blog, to get a few qualified professionals to volunteer a modest amount of time (say one hour per week) to catalog the half-truths, research them a bit, provide quantitative and qualitative evidence that clearly shows that these are not whole truths but "hole" truths, and THEN, after we have this "business plan", so to speak, go look for funding. Even if funding does not materialize soon, the data and information gathered could be published as a book, which is at least a step in the right direction! I'm just concerned that waiting for funding may result in nothing getting done.

Coming from the business world, I know that even the richest folks are leery of funding something that has no convincing plan. I'll be happy to volunteer an hour of my time every week and to provide a free webconferencing medium for folks to meet online, talk, chat, and share documents. I can volunteer my quantitative expertise in the statistical area (since I have a Ph.D. in mathematics and teach business/executive seminars in project management, operations and statistics - by the way, see the post I made on this blog today regarding my correspondence with Dr. Andre Feuerverger).

What do you think?

Joe