There is no proof that members of the PAT are safe for young people

We should ban them until some serious studies have been done

That will keep me chuckling for quite some time.

They listed about a half a dozen “scares” that have been brought up in the past few decades, based on “science”, where the overwhelming consensus of science actually said something quite different.

For the average person, this is the way to approach these scientific questions – what is the consensus? It obviously doesn’t mean it’s right or that it won’t shift over time. It’s fine to probe and ask the questions. That’s what science does. That’s what makes it the greatest tool mankind has ever come up with.

Science doesn’t “accept” – it challenges constantly. EVERYTHING in science is provisional. But we lose all sense of reality if we constantly jump out of our collective skins whenever new evidence is unearthed. As you point out, there is ALWAYS controversy. What is the consensus?

Sadly you are right — it is pretty much universal that people throw crackpot science around with the claim it is not bad science… Even more sadly is fewer and fewer people are able to see through it.

We are marching back to the dark ages.

“Here _______ has started off saying “I dont want to scare monger with bad science” then scaremongered with bad science.” Just change the name the pattern is repeated everywhere you look.