One of the things I notice editing renegade science and catastrophist articles is that many of them are written in something like a 50/50 mix of text and footnotes, in other words roughly in accordance to old-school standards of scholarship. The impression I get is that this might be desirable for certain kinds of audiences, but for reaching normal American audiences this is not what you want at all. What is needed is fewer footnotes, and either more romance, or more sex and violence, one or the other. I've tried to write up a couple of examples of the sort of thing I have in mind here for the benefit of my fellow catastrophists as examples and, while I have zero claims to being the next Rudyard Kipling or Chekhov, for whatever it's worth, here they are:
The Sex and Violence Version (coming shortly).