[ZX12R]

Like electric power was too good to be true? Like nuclear energy, television, radio, telephone, telegraph, the internal combustion engine, steam-engine driven looms, steam engines, water-wheel driven grist mills, water wheels, etc, etc, etc, back to the beginning of technology, were all too good to be true?

Along the way, and throughout the development of all those things you listed, a much better understanding of how everything works, was gained. For that very reason, that is why I think the skeptics are carrying a much heavier hand than the "I Want To Believe" faction.

[aruanan]

For that very reason, that is why I think the skeptics are carrying a much heavier hand than the "I Want To Believe" faction.

Except that none of those things, with the exception of nuclear power, gave insight into anything nuclear, and the study of things nuclear is still in its adolescence. Unfortunately, like the adolescent, many of those studying it think that the field to date, especially their own particular area, is the sine qua non of all things nuclear and that there's nothing more that can be known or discovered, thus leading to such statements of adolescent bluster as "If this is true then we have to throw out everything we've learned up till this point."