h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been here for about 14 months now, though it doesn't feel that long. I've made good use of the benefits & privileges.
In the last week or so I've started thinking about the other side of it - my responsibilities as a researcher.
Problem: I'm not good at it / I don't enjoy it / I'm not good at it / I don't enjoy it ...
How to break the loop? Don't know yet, but will work on it - tomorrow I Will Get Organised (well, not tomorrow but in a couple of months' time - off to NZ tomorrow).

What set this off? can't really say, but it came on soon after two conversations, both in the SEx forum:
1) Cloned meat: post 23 + a few. More pertinent: post 50 on.
2) Wind generators & Infrasound: all of it.

So, food for rumination. Am I paranoid, simply neurotic or trying to voice legitimate concerns of others who know perhaps even less than I?

The closest I received to an explanation was to not worry about little things like GM [& cloning], infrasound...
Little things? From this seat, butterflies in the amazon come to mind.

I should, apparantly, be more concerned with more likely things such as road dangers, pollution, electrocution, global warming...
Well, for most of that list there's an agency at work (civilisation) that hosts science, technology, engineering & so on and they're working towards righting those things.

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". To Whom?

Me? I'm not competent other than to encourage things - Keep thinking. Pay Your Taxes: Tax is the price of civilisation.