[Rytwyng]

I look at science, being used here to justify 'safe' and 'low risk' activity to kids .... and it makes me powerfully hostile to 'scientists' in general

Speaking as a scientist - most scientists are against this sort of thing.

Hostility to science (real science, that is) is the fast track to a new dark age.

[gobucks]

"Speaking as a scientist - most scientists are against this sort of thing. "

I wish this were true ... I don't think so. Most have no opinion, many are delighted, and the rest of those who may actually disapprove ... they are silent.

This is why my hostility to scientists grows by the year. It is that total endorsement, via the silence, of the use of the scientific method to justify pushing this stuff on kids. It is wrong ... and I have a M.S. degree in one of the hard sciences myself.