If Only Fracking Earthquakes Would Confine Themselves to TX Supporters' Neighborhoods

Was it Mark Twain who once said something to the effect of (and sorry if I got it wrong):

The hardest person to teach something to is someone who has a vested interest in not knowing. 

 I wish someone would round up all the so-called seismologists claiming they have no definitive proof that fracking causes earthquakes and make them sit in an Irving, TX cafe for a couple of hours, with the dishes flying off the tables, the light bulbs flinging themselves down from the ceilings, and the walls cracking.

According to an article in The Daily Beast entitled  26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas:

After 11 quakes in the last two days – with one registering at a 3.6 – Irving, Texas’ sudden onset tremor problem might be the fracking industry’s nightmare.There’s a monster lurking under Texas, beneath the sand and oil and cowboy bones, and it’s getting a little restless after a 15 million year nap. Shaking things up in the city of Irving, just slightly west of Dallas, where no less than ten earthquakes yesterday and today bring the total tremors to 26 since October in that town alone. . .The Balcones Fault Zone divides the Lone Star State in half, loosely following the route of Interstate 35 and passing under Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, and San Antonio. And it’s not just a huge amount of human populations that sit on top of it. There are also thousands of fracking wells boring down in to the earth’s crust, pumping millions of gallons of water down with the direct intent of breaking apart what lay beneath.

I'm so proud that the North Texas town of Denton banned fracking, even after having to fight back a slew of intimidating lawsuits.  I wish Irving had had the same good sense. The problem is that even if you didn't support fracking, the geological situation may have deteriorated  to the point where all of us in this region may be seeing a growing number of these earthquakes, increasing in severity.