"Let's be polite and try to find the truth without forcing each other into opposing camps and firing shots. We don't have to be enemies. We all want truth."

I'd say the stakes are much higher than your post seems to indicate. And it is patently absurd to say that "We all want the truth" when it is beyond any possible credulity to assume that the perpetrators "want the truth". There presumably have been, and will continue to be, enormous extraordinarily well funded efforts to promote obfuscation.