A perfect example of ad hominem responses: In your last essay “Narrative Managers Faceplant In Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job” you linked to a tweet by Eliot Higgins disparaging Tucker Carlson. 10 of 13 responses were negative. All of the negative 10 were ad hominem (e.g. Assad paid him, “straight from Sputnik”). None of those 10 critiques even mentioned the content of what Carlson was saying.