You raise a good point. Sure, it can't match the scale. However, I think that if you can sway the intelligent and conscientious, you've won most of the battle.

You raise a good point. Sure, it can't match the scale. However, I think that if you can sway the intelligent and conscientious, you've won most of the battle. You don't need to (and really can't) counter every bad or false argument or idea. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though. Trying to scale effective debate is a hard problem. I've run across a few entities that are trying to make civil, open discourse more commonplace. Unfortunately I forget the name… Anyone got examples?