This Globe and Mail op-ed is my first published opinion piece. The opinions editor is a delight, and it was refreshing to be able to just sit down and write instead of trying to learn all about a field of science, identifying and contacting key sources, interviewing, transcribing, structuring, quoting, and double-checking source information. It did go through fact-check but that was nowhere near as involved as fact checking for a reported story. It is written my own voice rat