Helpful hint for ranting

[corrvin]

If you wish to rant about some complex situation, keep in mind that only some of your audience will have the background knowledge to understand your rant. Therefore, you stand a good chance of having some people who are ignorant of the basic premises listen to you and decide your argument makes good logical sense (even if it ignores the facts).

However, you totally blow this for everyone if you wind up your scintillating argument by drawing a comparison to some extremely simple item or process, and get the facts of that bit wrong.