I think I agree with just about everything you say. I hadn't seen it that way. Yeah, now thinking about it, I guess they both just represent the same thing here, one more an aggressive salesman than the other. Interesting.

Here's the deal on why I inherently feel anti Frank here. In a previous life I was an audio engineer. In another previous life I was a salesman for some high end products (tools and whatnot). Both of these fields, and audio especially, are completely fucking littered with unending claims made of a product's superiority, accompanied by an utter dearth of any substantive fact and actual science behind them. It's infuriating to watch people blow chucks of money in this blind adherance to a product because they were sold on an idea. While admittedly a substantial character flaw, it drives me insane and over the years I've developed this 6" thick skin of skepticism which is a pretty aggressive bullshit detector.

I saw Frank come in with flowery marketing speak (which at first seemed logically sound), telling about how wonderful the power sand and system were, and then Tom came in and laid the actual science down, with Frank just getting butthurt and not actually engauging with the questions poised. This to me is the essence of fraudulent behavior. It's the reason that I can't do religion-- when someone ultimately relies on correlation and blind faith to dismiss valid questions, I feel it does a disservice to the world. Thus, I see the behavior in Frank and I associate it with all the other baggage I've got coming in to this. Valid or not, that's my feeling on it, and I bet there's a couple others out there who might agree.