Sorry, but the only "wholesale dishonesty and gratutious obnoxiousness" I've seen on these threads came from Fantasywriter's personal attacks on FReepers who disagree.
I have named three of those posters: myself, Swing_Ladder and goodusername, and posted links to some of those attacks, for example, here.
The key and astonishing element is: through all of dozens of posts, no other topic seems to interest Fantasywriter.
So I say: Fantasywriter apparently has little interest in discussing the pros & cons of dinosaurs or evolution, but a passionate obsession with impeaching those who disagree.
Can these be anything other than Alinsky Rules? So we have to ask, why?
Quote the “personal attacks” verbatim.