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The reality of the seriousness or danger of a given situation or condition can be separated and talked about separately from the way it is communicated to other people, because some people do it well, and some do it poorly, always and everywhere.

Very true, and a great point.

So this particular person who wrote the blog is using overheated language so we can disregard him according to some smarmy holier-than-thou types I see on this very forum.

Just to be clear, I do think we should disregard overheated bloggers who very often lead us astray on red herrings that have nothing to do with the actual problem. I did not say that we should ignore the executive order itself. All I did was encourage people to read the executive order for themselves, come up to their own conclusions, and disregard the blogger. And I still think that's the exact thing we should do. I don't believe in outsourcing what should be our own thought processes to bloggers.

The blogger may indeed be overheated with his "reading between the lines" interpretation. But because this blogger is overheated doesn't mean there is less to be concerned about.

Yes, but here's the problem. When this blogger goes off about transhumanism and AI's taking over our brains to serve the New World order, that massively overshadows the more mundane but very real concerns about gene and cellular experimentation in general.

As I said, if I was a lefty disrupter, this is the exact tactic I'd use. Take something about which there are very legitimate concerns, and distort it into some wild conspiracy theory that will get all the attention instead.

People need to start relying on their own reading comprehension, and their own thought processes, rather than blindly accepting the ravings of bloggers. Because you and I both know that the truth is most people didn't even read the article, much less the underlying executive order. And that's what we should be doing.