You obviously have the intellectual and emotional strength to withstand this attack but I just want to say that I'm sorry you had to experience that. Life is full of enough debilitating self doubt as it is, the audacity of someone to try and invalidate your realizations (especially ones that it seems saved your life, based on other articles you wrote) is astounding and frankly inexcusable. Thank you for all that you write as it has healed me in many different ways.