Quote Originally Posted by cwolff View Post
This is absolutely relevant and not a red herring.
You: Did he mention he worked for energy companies?
Me: That is irrelevant to what he said.
You: Is the fact that he is an ecologist relevant?

And you don't think that's a red herring?

Quote Originally Posted by cwolff View Post
no mention that he's paid to create effective communications for the very people the environmentalists are protesting.
So you can't find any logical faults in his arguments so you resort to logical fallacies and accuse others of resorting to logical fallacies instead.