Hi Bart-a refreshingly thought provoking article.I guess the media need people like "Dorkers" to stimulate a level of controversy which raises turnover.Leaving Richard and his alleged/disputed dogma aside,far more insidious ,to me,is the "baby without the bathwater" mentality espoused by the scientific community.It is no more rational to present a distortion (that science has only a positive effect on mankind and the planet) than it is to defend an unproveable religious premise. Rationalism is ,surely, concerned with factoring-in All the variables,no matter how unpalatable?